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• Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.

  Thomas B. Aldrich
  American writer, editor (1836 - 1907)
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• The junk-bond era has also spawned something that calls itself New Historicism. This seems to be a refuge for English majors without critical talent or broad learning in history or political science. To practice it, you must apparently lack all historical sense.

  Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)

  Camille Paglia
  American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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• Young pitchers don't throw enough in the minor leagues, and when they get to the majors, they don't have the stamina; their arms haven't been built up.

  Bruce Sutter
  American professional baseball pitcher (1953 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• historicism
• apparently
• historical
• political
• learning
• practice

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