Marginalia http://www.easylit.com/poe/comtext/prose/margin.shtml (November 1844)
Source: Connie Robertson (1998). Book of Humorous Quotations. p. 2
“"You have suffered many wounds." […] "It shows how many skilled swordsmen there are."”
ibid
Drenai series, Waylander II: In the Realm of the Wolf
“Most works of art are, necessarily, bad…; one suffers through the many for the few.”
“The Little Cars”, p. 200
Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
Letter to Giovanni Boccaccio (28 April 1373) as quoted in Petrarch : The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters (1898) edited by James Harvey Robinson and Henry Winchester Rolfe, p. 417
Context: I certainly will not reject the praise you bestow upon me for having stimulated in many instances, not only in Italy but perhaps beyond its confines also, the pursuit of studies such as ours, which have suffered neglect for so many centuries; I am, indeed, almost the oldest of those among us who are engaged in the cultivation of these subjects. But I cannot accept the conclusion you draw from this, namely, that I should give place to younger minds, and, interrupting the plan of work on which I am engaged, give others an opportunity to write something, if they will, and not seem longer to desire to reserve everything for my own pen. How radically do our opinions differ, although, at bottom, our object is the same! I seem to you to have written everything, or at least a great deal, while to myself I appear to have produced almost nothing.
“Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!”
Source: His Majesty's Dragon
“How many honest words have suffered corruption since Chaucer’s days!”
No Wit, no Help, like a Woman's (1611), Act ii. Sc. 1.
