Edith Hamilton - People Quotes

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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people, as no historical reconstruction can.

Edith Hamilton

Clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. We are more and more caught up by the unintelligible. People like it. This argues an inability to think, or, almost as bad, a disinclination to think.

Edith Hamilton

What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them, and with this as the foremost object ideas of freedom and self-reliance and service to the community were obscured to the point of disappearing.

Edith Hamilton

The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.

Edith Hamilton

There is no better indication of what the people of any period are like than the plays they go to see.

Edith Hamilton