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| Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history. | Russell Hoban | 1925-, American Author |
| It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats. | Russian Proverb | Sayings of Russian Origin |
| Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy. | Saadi | |
| A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. | Salman Rushdie | 1948-, Indian-born British Author |
| Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. | Salman Rushdie | 1948-, Indian-born British Author |
| If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind. | Salman Rushdie | 1948-, Indian-born British Author |
| Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart. | Salman Rushdie | 1948-, Indian-born British Author |
| The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected. | Salman Rushdie | 1948-, Indian-born British Author |
| The only privilege literature deserves -- and this privilege it requires in order to exist -- is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out. | Salman Rushdie | 1948-, Indian-born British Author |
| There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad. | Samuel Butler | 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist |
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| The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. | Samuel Butler | 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist |
| A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| Language is the dress of thought. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation -- a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
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| No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| Language is the armoury of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher |
| No one does anything from a single motive. | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher |
| What comes from the heart, goes to the heart. | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher |
| The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper -- whether little or great, it belongs to Literature. | Sarah Orne Jewett | 1849-1909, American Author |
| Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged. | Saul Landau | |
| Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before. | Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort | 1741-1794, French Writer, Journalist, Playwright |
| A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure. | Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort | 1741-1794, French Writer, Journalist, Playwright |
| That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned. | Seneca | 4 B.C. ¿ 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher |
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| Leisure without literature is death and burial alive. | Seneca | 4 B.C. ¿ 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher |
| The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not. | Sidonie Gabrielle Colette | 1873-1954, French Author |
| The role of the intelligence --that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit. | Simone Weil | 1910-1943, French Philosopher, Mystic |
| Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. | Simone Weil | 1910-1943, French Philosopher, Mystic |
| A mind enclosed in language is in prison. | Simone Weil | 1910-1943, French Philosopher, Mystic |
| Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead. | Sinclair Lewis | 1885-1951, First American Novelist to win the Nobel Prize for literature |
| All other men are specialists, but his specialty is omniscience. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | 1859-1930, British Author, ''Sherlock Holmes'' |
| A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | 1859-1930, British Author, ''Sherlock Holmes'' |
| The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously. | Sir Arthur Keith | |
| Choose an author as you choose a friend. | Sir Christopher Wren | |
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| I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is an language I do not understand. | Sir Edward Appleton | 1892-1965, British Physicist, Nobel Prize, 1947 |
| Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking. | Sir Humphrey Davy | 1778-1829, British Chemist |
| If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent. | Sir Isaac Newton | 1642-1727, British Scientist, Mathematician |
| The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is. | Sir James M. Barrie | 1860-1937, British Playwright |
| Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one! | Sir John A. Macdonald | 1815-1891, Canadian First Prime Minister |
| What we see depends mainly on what we look for. | Sir John Lubbock | 1834-1913, British Statesman, Banker, Naturalist |
| I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable. | Sir Max Beerbohm | 1872-1956, British Actor |
| Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. | Sir Peregrine Worsthorne | 1923-, British Journalist |
| University degrees are a bit like adultery: you may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable. | Sir Peter Imbert | |
| Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch. | Sir Richard Steele | 1672-1729, British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor |
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