Famous quotes containing the words literary and/or book:
“There was a literary gentleman present who who had dramatised in his time two hundred and forty-seven novels as fast as they had come outand who was a literary gentleman in consequence.”
—Charles Dickens (18121870)
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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