classics

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study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome

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The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child. Lisa See

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race. Henry Miller

I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers. Piers Anthony

Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig. Ralph Waldo Emerson

For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies. Marshall McLuhan

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