Quotes from Thomas Wright

Without triers there would never be any successors

Without triers they would never be any successors

A picture may tell a thousand words but it doesn't tell a story

When Wilde composed his works he surrounded himself with books. A friend remembered him writing a poem 'with a botanical work in front of him from which he . . . [selected] the names of flowers most pleasing to the ear to plant in his garden of verse'.5 Aubrey Beardsley's caricature of Wilde, 'Oscar Wilde at Work', shows the author at his desk surrounded by mountains of books.

If he could not read all the volumes he wanted, he could at least 'hold books in his hand'.

Without triers they would never be any successors

Without triers there would never be any successors

A picture may tell a thousand words but it doesn't tell a story

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