Quote of the day
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
H. W. Garrod
Born: 1878
Died: 1960 (aged 82)
Bio: Heathcote William Garrod was a British classical scholar and literary scholar.
Known for:
- Oxford Book of Latin Verse
- Poetry and the criticism of life (1931)
- Scholarship: Its Meaning and Value (1946)
- The study of good letters
- Tolstoi's theory of art (1935)