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"Puns are the highest form of literature."

"Online text: Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica translated by J. H. Mozley"

"A translation of the first three books of John of Salisbury's Policraticus."

"Run from the Furies, and they find you, as if fear were a homing device, as if literature itself, on contemplating the abyss, were an invitation to jump into it, while Wagner whistles."

"A very large part of the population of Wales was English-speaking, and the English-speaking part had a contribution just as big, if not bigger, to make towards Welsh cultural life than the Welsh-speak…"

"As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full…"

"A giant of Chinese literature" in The Sydney Morning Herald"

"The eighteenth-century polymath Thomas Young was the last person to have read all the books published in his lifetime. That means that he would've read all the Shakespeare and all the Greek and Roman …"

"Reality's kind of a medium, maybe greater than paper. We all want life to have the same texture that we read about in novels."

"The Deipnosphists, translated by C. D. Yonge, at The Literature Collection"

"The short story A Dark Brown Dog can be read online at American Literature"

"On the left is seen a square chest, raised five inches from the ground covered with lime, about 5 ells in length by not more than 4 in breadth."

"The wise man reads both books and life itself."

"It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is left as an exercise for the reader."

"Wagon is the bread-earning horse of the Railways. Load it adequately. Make it run and don't stable it."

"Pay no rent under any pretext!"

"You shall everywhere mind the book of the Granth-Sahib as your Guru; whatever you shall ask it will show you."

"I read my eyes out and can't read half enough. … The more one reads the more one sees we have to read."

"The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragr…"

"Reading Europe's press, it is really reassuring to see how warmly Europeans have embraced President Bush's formulation that an "axis of evil" threatens world peace. There's only one small problem. Pre…"