Quotes of Edition - somelinesforyou

“ Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind. ”

- Walter Bagehot

“ Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads. ”

- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

“ I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery. ”

- A. S. W. Rosenbach

“ If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs. ”

- John Clare

“ Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago. ”

- Ashley Montagu

“ A kiss that speaks volumes is seldom a first edition. ”

- Clare Whiting

“ I believe I shall,in some shape or other,always exist; and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine, hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul's, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra. ”

- Horace Walpole
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