Emil Ludwig, Gifts of Life: A Retrospect, (Little, Brown, and Company, 1931) edt. Ethel Colburn Mayne, Preface, v.:
The lesson of all memoirs is that the human heart is unchanging, throughout all ages, classes, and varieties of opinion.
A cornucopia of elegant excerpts, a collectanea of passages, a florilegium of ideas, a gallimaufry of aperçus, musing flowers of yore, an anthologia of verse (a Parnassus), an omnium gatherum of etymologies and origins, all singled out carefully by hand.
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