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Arthur Quiller-Couch

English Writer

Born: Nov 21, 1863

Died: May 12, 1944

Great Knowledge Me Past Will You

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Portraits of other great ones look down on you in your college halls; but while you are young and sit at the brief feast, what avails their serene gaze if it do not lift up your hearts and movingly persuade you to match your manhood to its inheritance? Arthur Quiller-Couch

Great You College Sit Young Down Other Gaze Feast Great Ones Lift Look Match Halls Up Hearts Manhood While Avail Persuade Your Inheritance Serene Brief Portraits

Will you tell me, 'Oh, painting is a special art, whereas anyone can write prose passably well'? Can he, indeed? ... Can you, sir? Nay, believe me, you are either an archangel or a very bourgeois gentleman indeed if you admit to having spoken English prose all your life without knowing it. Arthur Quiller-Couch

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The whole business of reading English Literature in two years, to know it in any reputable sense of the word - let alone your learning to write English - is, in short, impossible. Arthur Quiller-Couch

Alone Business Learning Impossible Word Reading Sense Write Know Years Any Short Literature Reputable Your English English Literature Whole Two

The more clearly you write, the more easily and surely you will be understood. Arthur Quiller-Couch

You Will Easily More Write Clearly Surely Understood

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