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)

“The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so—or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)