"We who have been true readers all..." - Quote by C S Lewis
We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.
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“Humans are very seldom either totally sincere or totally hypocritical. Their moods change, their motives are mixed, and they are often quite mistaken as to what their motives are.”
“There is only one way fit for a man - Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.”
“Selfishness has never been admired.”
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“In literature it is only the wild that attracts us.”
“Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.”
“These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.”