Quotes by Ion Ghica

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Literature... the form in which the ideas, beliefs and knowledge of a nation are recorded, only it can give a precise awareness of the relationships that exist between the people and things of a time with the true ideas, it is the treasury in which the knowledge of societies is deposited.

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Nothing serves better to appreciate and measure the condition of a people than literature, for it is the form in which the knowledge and moral and intellectual condition of a nation is set forth and recorded.