Quotation
- "The pawn is the soul of chess." - François-André Danican Philidor (... the Pawns. They are the very Life of the Game. They alone form the Attack and the Defense; on their good or bad Situation depends the Gain or Loss of the Party." Philidor, 1749 (Euwe & Hooper 1959:1) ).
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“We are as much informed of a writer’s genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his eyes, and find a new and fervent sense; as a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering. As the journals say, “the italics are ours.””
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“In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse.”
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