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Timeless Wisdom

Life and Literature

John Purver Richardson

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Over two thousand extracts, one alphabet. J. Purver Richardson classified passages from ancient and modern writers into a single subject-ordered treasury, printed in Lynchburg, Virginia in 1910: a private library's worth of eloquence filed so the right words surface on demand. A Southern gentleman's monument to a lifetime of reading. Let his index do your remembering.

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  1. 1LIFE AND LITERATURE
  2. 2OVER TWO THOUSAND EXTRACTS FROM ANCIENT AND MODERN WRITERS, AND CLASSIFIED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
  3. 3J. PURVER RICHARDSON.
  4. 4Copyright 1910
  5. 5PRESS OF BROWN-MORRISON CO. LYNCHBURG, VA.
  6. 6PREFACE
  7. 7CONTENTS
  8. 8Life and Literature
  9. 9A
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  12. 123
  13. 134
  14. 145
  15. 156
  16. 167
  17. 178
  18. 189

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