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Letter "L" » Literature
«Books are humanity in print.»
«Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.»
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
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About:
Books,
History,
Literature
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Keywords:
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«Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.»
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
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About:
Books,
Literature
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Keywords:
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The Lighthouse,
The Sea,
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«Bad literature is a form of treason.»
«A great speech is literature.»
«All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.»
«A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation»
«As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value»
«A wicked book cannot repent»
«Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Critic,
Poet,
Writer)
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About:
Books,
Literature,
Poetry
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Keywords:
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faithless,
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The Midnight,
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