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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 30479 |
| QUOTATION: | Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | P.D. (Phyllis Dorothy) James (b. 1920), British mystery writer. Daily Telegraph (London, April 14, 1988). Full name is Phyllis Dorothy James White. |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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