"Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there At this or that box, pulling through the gap, In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, The first book first."
"At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction."
Whoso loves Believes the impossible.
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
"Books succeed, and lives fail."
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Published Sources for
the above Quotations:
F:
"In "The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations," by Robert Andrews, 1989"
R:
"Letter, Apr 1839; In "Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford," 1954."
A:
""Aurora Leigh," bk. 5, 1857."
N:
"In "Words of Women Quotations for Success," by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997."
K:
"In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."
