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In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.

— Marshall McLuhan

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read…

— Oscar Wilde

...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the Middle Ages...…

— Woodrow Wilson

“Roman laws tended to be long and complex - one of Rome's most enduring legacies to the world is cumbersome and tortuous legal prose.”

— Adrian Goldsworthy

“Generally, three approaches to the law codes of the ancient Near East are adduced. Some scholars see them as idyllic collections of judicial problems…

— Joshua A. Berman

“While the Christian and civic traditions were intrinsically suspicious of commerce, the Roman civil law was not. Rediscovered in the revival of learning in…

— Jerry Z. Muller

“An editor doesn't just read, he reads well , and reading well is a creative, powerful act. The ancients knew this and it frightened…

— Susan Bell

... the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ…

— Thomas Jefferson

We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between theilliterateness of…

— Henry David Thoreau

I had proposed to HBO a series about the city cops in Rome at the time of Nero. What had interested me was the…

— David Milch

“In later years, Reading seems to have been regarded as a handy place to run down to, when matters were becoming unpleasant in London. …

— Jerome K. Jerome

It was a wise and useful provision of the ancients to transmit their thoughts to posterity by recording them in treatises, so that they…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio