No one can deny-no one would think of denying-the vast benefit which literature has conferred on mankind; and with what ingratitude has it ever been received! (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)

No one can deny-no one would think of denying-the vast benefit which literature has conferred on mankind; and with what ingratitude has it ever been received!

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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