Readers are of two sorts one who goes carefully through a book, and the other who as carefully lets the book go through him.
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I do not find that the age or country makes the least difference no, nor the language the actors spoke, nor the religion which they professed, whether Arab in the desert or Frenchman in the Academy. I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion.Douglas Jerrold
I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a French book, in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.
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Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.
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Treason is like diamonds there is nothing to be made by the small trader.
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Oh, tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire.
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As for the brandy, 'nothing extenuate' and the water, put nought in in malice.
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