Famous quotes containing the words literary and/or historian:
“Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)