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“Goethe said, "The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing"; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he ever received was a letter in which one of his readers said: "I read your novel without having to look up a single word in the dictionary." These writers, plainly, lived in different worlds.”

World Looks Said Different Novel Reader Letters Look Up Compliment Finest Dictionary Different Worlds Single Word Lexicon

Author:Randall Jarrell

“Not because Socrates said so,... I look upon all men as my compatriots.”

Men Looks Said Look Up

Book:Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising his essays, journey into Italy, and letters

Source: Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising his essays, journey into Italy, and letters

“The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.”

Looks Said Two Doors Ready Wind Draws Spread Hungry Look Up Feds Engines Sheep Mist Foul Grim Paws Contagion

Author:John Milton