"The study of science teaches young men to……" — John Stuart Mill

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• I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf. — Andrea Bocelli
• Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody… — Geraldine Brooks
• I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers… — Piers Anthony
• In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow… — Oscar Wilde
• Read the classics one hour every day, drunk or sober. Reading the classics gives one a feeling of confidence. It… — Unknown Author
• Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget… — Fred Savage
• I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics. — Richard Attenborough
• Realize, how many classics I gave you/Perhaps if you think back you'll realize that I made you — Nas
• The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to… — Michael York
• Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck… — Liev Schreiber
• They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century. — Douglas Gresham
• I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but… — Arthur Cohn

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