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“In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.”

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Phyllis McGinley was an American author known for her humorous and warm-hearted prose. Her works often revolve around the theme of daily life, winning widespread acclaim for their unique perspective and profound insight. more

“To the north of Armenia lies Zorzania Georgia, near the confines of which there is a fountain of oil which discharges so great a quantity as to furnish loading for many camels. The use made of it is not for the purpose of food, but as an unguent for the cure of cutaneous distempers in men and cattle, as well as other complaints, and it is also good for burning. In the surrounding country no other oil is used in their lamps, and people come from distant parts to procure it.”

People Men Wells Made Country Use Science Used Lying Purpose Oil Cures Burning Quantity Complaints Fountain Lamps Georgia Cattle Camels Discharge Armenia

Author:Marco Polo

“Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.”

Autobiography Biographies Admirable Omelets

Author:Hilaire Belloc

“If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.”

Ifs Should Jesus Sweet Let Me Sake Gentleman Biographies Obliged Me Alone Sweet Friend

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself.”

Men Way Littles Doe Art Character Together Vision Mirrors Property Rounds Crowds Great Men Biographies Afar Reflexes Little Man Hovering Scanning

Book:Critical and Miscellaneous Essays

Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays

Quote by Phyllis McGinley

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