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Famous quotes containing the words illustration, art and/or book:

“What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?”
—Henry James (1843–1916)

“Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“‘Tis to rebuke a vicious taste which has crept into thousands besides herself,—of reading straight forwards, more in quest of the adventures, than of the deep erudition and knowledge which a book of this cast, if read over as it should be, would infallibly impart.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)