The society of dead authors

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The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

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  1. And the disadvantage of finding that some ‘new’ works are claimed to be theirs long after death stopped their writing …

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