The books that one reads in the impressionable years, and therefore absorbs and remembers, are always so much better and more exciting than life. - E. V. Lucas

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The books that one reads in the impressionable years, and therefore absorbs and remembers, are always so much better and more exciting than life.

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About E. V. Lucas

Edward Verrall Lucas, (11/12 June 1868 – 26 June 1938) was an English humorist, essayist, playwright, biographer, publisher, poet, novelist, short story writer and editor.

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It was Henri Taine, I think, who said that there was no volume he could not compress into a chapter, and no chapter that would not go into a sentence. Dr. Giles has carried out Taine's thrasonical brag. There is no Chinese lifetime, however crowded and illustrious, that he cannot pack into a paragraph or a page.

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I could go on indefinitely thus, calling forth from their graves these hard-bitten sea dogs; but that is enough. It is literature in its way, is it not? </br> Are there the same or kindred characters in the Navy to-day, one wonders. Let us hope so.

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