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“What a vapid job title our culture gives to those honorable laborers the ancient Egyptians and Sumerians variously called Learned Men of the Magic…

— Miles Harvey

“When he had brushed a thin coat of dust off the pebbled leather cover of one volume, he saw the words: Register of All…

— John Bellairs

“He saw a square room furnished as a library. The entire section of the walls which he could spy was covered from floor to…

— James Stephens

“...the perusal of all excellent books is, as it were, to interview with the noblest men of past ages, who have written them.”

— René Descartes

“Therefore, O my brothers, is a new nobility needed: to oppose all mob-rule and all despotism and to write anew upon new law-tables the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“These letters and words, when placed in the right order, would conjure all manner of exotic beasts and people from the shadows, would reveal…

— Neil Gaiman

“The tribe of clerks was an obvious one...the junior clerks of flash houses--young gentlemen with tight coats, bright boots, well-oiled hair, and supercilious lips.…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Aristocracy has three successive stages: the age of superiority, the age of privilege, and the age of vanity. Once through with the first, it…

— Chateaubriand

“At nightfall I return home and enter my study. There on the threshold I remove my dirty, mud-spattered clothes, slip on my regal and…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Books were so simple about these things, fairy tales so straightforward! There were peasants, and then there were kings and queens. Sometimes there were…

— Liz Braswell

“(...) the historian whose pen traces these words - trusting that HE KNOWS HIS PLACE, and that he entertains a becoming recerence for those…

— Charles Dickens

“To whom shall I offer this book, young and sprightly, Neat, polished, wide-margined, and finished politely? To you, my Cornelius, whose learning pedantic, Has…

— Gaius Valerius Catullus