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“I am of the temper of most kings, who love to be in debt, are all for present money, no matter how they pay it afterwards: besides, the nature of a preface is rambling, never wholly out of the way, nor in it. This I have learned from the practice of honest Montaigne, and return at my pleasure to Ovid and Chaucer, of whom I have little more to say.”

Self Tradition Imitation Ovid Prefaces

Book:Dryden

Source: Dryden

“Albert's uncle says I ought to have put this in the preface, but I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.”

Writing Skipping Prefaces

Book:The Story of the Treasure Seekers

Source: The Story of the Treasure Seekers

“A preface is usually an excrescence on a good book, and a vain apology for a worthless one;”

Author:Dinah Maria Mulock