“Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.”
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“There are no indecipherable writings, any writing system produced by man can be read by man.”
Epigraphic Atlas of Petén Phase 1 http://cemyk.org/pages/en/publications-projects.php
“He was able to read and write like a well bred man.”
De Queyroz, the great Portuguese historian writing about Dominicus Corea - The Conquest of Ceylon (Volumes 1-6) By Fr. Fernao de Queyroz, tr. Fr. S. G. Perera, Ceylon Government Press, (1930)
“To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
A Mathematician's Apology (1941)
“No man expects such exact fidelity as a traitor.”
fidei acerrimus exactor est perfidus
De Ira (On Anger): Book 2, cap. 28, line 7.
Moral Essays
Selected Writings (2003) edited by David Daniell
“One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.”
Quoted in The Edmonton Journal (8 March 1999), C3
As quoted in World Unity, Vol. IX, 3rd edition (1931), p. 190
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