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Alphonsus Chong said:
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Finished this re-read after many years. I enjoyed it more this time, perhaps because it is 30 years later and I am a little more patient and interested in the bits apart from the main storyline.
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“Our judgments, like our watches, none
go just alike, yet each believes his own”
― An Essay On Criticism
go just alike, yet each believes his own”
― An Essay On Criticism
“History is written by the winners.”
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“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”
― Johnsonian Miscellanies - Vol II
― Johnsonian Miscellanies - Vol II
“A little Learning is a dangerous Thing.”
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“I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.”
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