65312. Woolf, Virginia. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996

The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996.


NUMBER:	65312
QUOTATION:	The first duty of a lecturer—to hand you after an hour’s discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantlepiece for ever.
ATTRIBUTION:	Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), British novelist. A Room of One’s Own, ch. 1 (1929).
BIOGRAPHY:	Columbia Encyclopedia.
WORKS:	Woolf Collection.