“ There's a new tribunal now higher than God's — the educated man's! ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
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“ Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
- 392
“ To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.". ”
- John Tillotson- Copy
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“ Now if we allow our living language to die out, it is almost a certainty that we condemn our literary records to remain in obscurity. ”
- Douglas Hyde- Copy
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“ What is special about Fisher is not the tedious stuff about six teaspoons of dry mustard, but the literary dressing around the sides of the recipes. ”
- Philip Howard- Copy
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“ I am not a literary man. I am a man of science, and I am interested in that branch of Anthropology which deals with the history of human speech. ”
- Jim Murray- Copy
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“ To be able to be caught up into the world of thought that is being educated. ”
- Edith Hamilton- Copy
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“ The best-educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
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“ To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated. ”
- James Carse- Copy
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“ I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ He assured me he was speaking only as the chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors,... erudite and thoughtful. ”
- Charles Schumer- Copy
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“ The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted. ”
- William Ralph Inge- Copy
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“ He was erudite, tough a classic journalist. When he talked about something, you knew he knew the territory. ”
- Larry King- Copy
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“ It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions. ”
- St. Francis De Sales- Copy
- 162
“ All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. ”
- John Cheever- Copy
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“ To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films. ”
- Alan Moore- Copy
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“ A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special. ”
- Nelson Mandela- Copy
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“ It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New year to all the world! ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 652
“ I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
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