Quote#Books & Reading
The measure of an author's power would be best found in the book…
Quote byWalter Raleigh · 1861–1922
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Six Essays on Johnson (1910), p. 28.
English (original)
The measure of an author's power would be best found in the book which he should sit down to write the day after his library was burnt to the ground.
— Walter Raleigh
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