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.
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, as quoted in: Egon Schwarz, “Hugo Von Hofmannsthal as a Critic,” Arthur R. Evans (ed.), On Four Modern Humanists (Pr...
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