Sir Herbert Read

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“all must die.

Only a sweet and virtuous soul,
Like seasoned timber, never gives;
But though the whole world turn to coal,
Then chiefly lives.”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)

“A classic—something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)