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Quotes from The Charles Homer Haskins Lecture: The Life of Learning — Maynard Mack

1909–2001 United States

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Most of the rewards of the life of learning, I have noticed, come after death if they come at all.

The Charles Homer Haskins Lecture: The Life of Learning (1983)

Have the prospects of the humanities ever been entirely reassuring? I suspect not.

The Charles Homer Haskins Lecture: The Life of Learning (1983)

It takes much harder work to write for the public than to write for one's colleagues. And it has a cleansing effect on one's vocabulary. Pompous gibberish rapidly disappears.

The Charles Homer Haskins Lecture: The Life of Learning (1983)

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