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by Sinclair Lewis
THE towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs ...
What more learning have we need of, but that experience will teach us without booke?
by Titus Lucretius Carus
Mother of Aeneas and his race, delight of men and gods, life-giving Venus, it is your doing that under the wheeling cons...
by Agatha Christie
"Tommy, old thing!" "Tuppence, old bean!" The two young people greeted each other affectionately, and momentarily blocke...
by Лев Толстой
KARENIN and his wife continued to live under the same roof, to meet every day, and yet to remain entire strangers to eac...
by H. Rider Haggard
It is a curious thing that at my age-fifty-five last birthday-I should find myself taking up a pen to try and write a hi...
by Oscar Wilde
L'artiste est celui qui crée des choses de beauté.
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
LATE in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting in a well-furnished room in a town in Kent...
by Jane Austen
THE family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.
by George Eliot, Jessica Hische
MISS BROOKE had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
by Thomas Hardy
THIS novel being one wherein the great campaign of the heroine begins after an event in her experience which has usually...
by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
On they went, singing "Rest Eternal," and whenever they stopped, their feet, the horses, and the gusts of wind seemed to...
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...