"Arguably the best version of Virgil in English poetry."

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“About Douglas as a translator there may be two opinions; about his Aeneid as an English book there can be only one. Here a great story is greatly told and set off with original embellishments which are all good – all either delightful or interesting – in their diverse ways.”

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"Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it."

— Jeremy Bentham

Philosophy1748–1832

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"Though the pen is mightier than the sword, the sword speaks louder and stronger at any given moment."

— Leonard Wibberley

Literature1915–1983

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"To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine."

— Max Beerbohm

Literature1872–1956

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"I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics. Stan could write on three typewriters at once! I wrote…"

— Mickey Spillane

Literature1918–2006

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