“Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world”
― The Devil in the White City
― The Devil in the White City
“Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the notion that one could use words freely, as one liked, without hard and fast rules of lexical conduct.”
― The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
― The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
“I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.”
― Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife
― Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife
“That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.”
― The Lucky Chance
― The Lucky Chance
“June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor of the Washington Post was on the line. Five men had been arrested earlier that morning in a burglary attempt at Democratic headquarters, carrying photographic equipment and electronic gear. Could he come in?”
― All the President’s Men
― All the President’s Men
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