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John Grisham
“Poverty is a great equalizer”
John Grisham, The Appeal

John Grisham
“Good God, Keith."
"Yes, I've talked to Him too and I'm still waiting on his Guidance...”
John Grisham, The Confession

William Wordsworth
“we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particular
way in which we have been accustomed to be pleased.”
William Wordsworth, Preface to the Lyrical Ballads

William Wordsworth
“The knowledge both of the Poet and the Man of science is pleasure; but the knowledge of the one cleaves to us as a necessary part of our existence, our natural and unalienable inheritance; the other is a personal and individual acquisition, slow to come to us, and by no habitual and direct sympathy connecting us with our fellow-beings. The Man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he cherishes and loves it in his solitude: the Poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science. Emphatically may it be said of the Poet, as Shakespeare hath said of man, ‘that he looks before and after.’ He is the rock of defence for human nature; an upholder and preserver, carrying everywhere with him relationship and love. In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs: in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed; the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time. The objects of the Poet’s thoughts are everywhere; though the eyes and senses of man are, it is true, his favourite guides, yet he will follow wheresoever he can find an atmosphere of sensation in which to move his wings. Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge—it is as immortal as the heart of man.”
William Wordsworth, Preface to the Lyrical Ballads

Alexander Pushkin
“I want to understand you,
I study your obscure language.”
Alexander Pushkin

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