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Quote Left Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space. Quote Right
Quote Left If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. Quote Right
Quote Left Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns Quote Right
Quote Left Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry. Quote Right
Quote Left Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin. Quote Right
Quote Left From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be. Quote Right
Quote Left Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. Quote Right

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