Horace Binney Wallace Quotes

• Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower; Thy waves as they dimple smile back on the plain, And Rhine, ancient river, thou'rt German again!

  Horace Binney Wallace

  Sweet, Dark, Rivers

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• I certainly think that the best book in the world would owe the most to a good index, and the worst book, if it had but a single good thought in it, might be kept alive by it.

  Horace Binney Wallace

  Book, Thinking, Alive

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 974, To S. Austin Allibone, 1922.

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• A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.

  Horace Binney Wallace

  Kind, Nations, Posterity

  Horace Binney Wallace (1856). “Literary criticisms and other papers”, p.340

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