„I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.“

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William Lyon Phelps

US-amerikanischer Literaturwissenschaftler und Hochschulleh… 1865 - 1943

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„The progressive world is necessarily divided into two classes — those who take the best of what there is and enjoy it — those who wish for something better and try to create it.“

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— Florence Nightingale English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing 1820 - 1910

Cassandra (1860)
Kontext: The progressive world is necessarily divided into two classes — those who take the best of what there is and enjoy it — those who wish for something better and try to create it. Without these two classes the world would be badly off. They are the very conditions of progress, both the one and the other. Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

„The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.“

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— Thomas Wolfe American writer 1900 - 1938

„There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes, and those who do not. Both classes are extremely unpleasant to meet socially, leaving practically no one in the world whom one cares very much to know.“

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— Robert Benchley American comedian 1889 - 1945

Vanity Fair (February 1920)
Quelle: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/07/two-classes/

„AT ABOUT THIS POINT the weak-hearted reader usually sits down in the road, removes his shoes and weeps that he 'is a bad linguist' or that he or she can't possibly learn all those languages. One has to divide the readers who want to be experts from those who do not, and divide, as it were, those who want to see the world from those who merely want to know WHAT PART OF IT THEY LIVE IN.“

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— Ezra Pound, buch ABC of Reading

Quelle: ABC of Reading (1934), p. 42

„Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are toiled to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.“

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— Winston S. Churchill Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874 - 1965

Have You a Hobby?, Answers, 21 April 1934

Reproduced in The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill, Vol IV, Churchill at Large, Centenary Edition (1976), Library of Imperial History, p. 288. ISBN 0903988453
The 1930s

„Trusting government nowadays means dividing humanity into two classes: those who can be trusted with power to run other people’s lives, and those who cannot even be trusted to run their own lives.“

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— James Bovard American journalist 1956

From Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen (St. Martin's Press, 1999) http://www.jimbovard.com/Epigram%20page%20Freedom%20in%20Chains.htm