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"Books that have become classics -- books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal -- always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay."

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"Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have."

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"There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital."

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"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."

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"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."

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"A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again."

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"There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative."

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"There is but one way left to save a classic: to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation."

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"A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man."

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"The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living."

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Speech Marks "For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old."

Thoreau, Henry David
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