Hamilton Gordon

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“There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.”
—Edith Hamilton (1867–1963)

“I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)