Andrew Lang Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.”
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“You can cover a great deal of country in books.”
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“O grant me a house by the beach of a bay, Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play With the sea-weed in summer, ye bountiful powers! And I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, For a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.”
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“Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.†Distrust a course of reading! People who really care for books read all of them. There is no other course.”
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“...remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.”
-- Andrew Lang
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