[I]t is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not an
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I suspect by the account you give me of your garden, that you mean a surprise. As good singers always preface their performance by
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A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time.
Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
The inside of an Englishman's head can be very fairly compared to a Murray's Guide: a great many facts, but few ideas; a great dea
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Indeed, the best books have a use, like sticks and stones, which is above or beside their design, not anticipated in the preface,
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Aristotle illustrates his view of the relation of metaphor to simile as follows. "When the poet say of Achilles, 'He sprang on the
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The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all
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Faith seeking reason.
[Fides quaerens intellectum.]
[Fides quaerens intellectum.]
There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, whic
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