Famous quote by Northrop Frye

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"In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented"

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This quote is written / told by Northrop Frye between July 14, 1912 and January 23, 1991. He/she was a famous Critic from Canada. The author also have 8 other quotes.

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"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves"

Lao Tzu, Author

"Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work"

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after"

"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease"

Voltaire, Writer

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man"

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage"

"Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need"

Voltaire, Writer

"Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths"

Edgar A. Shoaff

"Errors are not in the art but in the artificers"

"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today"