Literature Quotes
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“Literary theory”
“Republic of letters.”
“Literature is news that stays news.”
“La république des lettres.”
“Literature is analysis after the event.”
“Literature is the thought of thinking Souls.”
“Literature is the question minus the answer.”
“We cultivate literature on a little oat-meal.”
“The great Cham of literature. [Samuel Johnson.]”
“Literary Men are * * * a perpetual priesthood.”
“Literature is prophetic-life often lives up to fiction”
“The death of Dr. Hudson is a loss to the republick of letters.”
“La mode d'aimer Racine passera comme la mode du café.”
“The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.”
“Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry.”
“The only test of a work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.”
“Wikipedia: Literature”
“* * * A man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.”