("Sir: For the first time in twenty-three years 'Bartlett's Familiar Quotations' has been revised and enlarged, and under a separate cover we are sending you a copy of the new edition. We would appreciate an expression of opinion from you of the value of this work after you have had an ample opportunity of examining it." --THE PUBLISHERS) <br /> <br />Of making many books there is no end-- <br />So Sancho Panza said, and so say I. <br />Thou wert my guide, philosopher and friend <br />When only one is shining in the sky. <br /> <br />Books cannot always please, however good; <br />The good is oft interred with their bones. <br />To be great is to be misunderstood, <br />The anointed soverign of sighs and groans. <br /> <br />The Moving Finger writes, and having writ, <br />I never write as funny as I can. <br />Remote, unfriendly, studious let me sit <br />And say to all the world, "This was a man!" <br /> <br />Go, lovely Rose, that lives its little hour! <br />Go, little booke! and let who will be clever! <br />Roll on! From yonder ivy-mantled tower <br />The moon and I could keep this up forever.<br /><br />Franklin P. Adams<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lines-on-and-from/
