"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Monday, December 18, 2006
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Confucius, The Analects 8.12 (tr. D.C. Lau):
The Master said, 'It is not easy to find a man who can study for three years without thinking about earning a salary.'
14.24:
The Master said, 'Men of antiquity studied to improve themselves; men today study to impress others.'