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1 " You have a great advantage as a writer, Monsieur,' said Poirot. 'You can relieve your feelings by expedient of the printed word. You have the power of the pen over your enemies. "
― Agatha Christie
2 " With this idea, being a man with long experience of the sea (and they certainly have a great advantage over other men in any sort of task)... "
― , Comentarios Reales de los Incas, I
3 " And those characters [in a fairy tale] dwell in a moral world, whose laws are as clear as the law of gravity. That too is a great advantage of the folk tale. It is not a failure of imagination to see the sky blue. It is a failure rather to be weary of its being blue- and not to notice how blue it is. And appreciation of the subtler colors of the sky will come later. In the folk tale, good is good and evil is evil, and the former will triumph and later will fail. This is not the result of the imaginative quest. It is rather its principle and foundation. It is what will enable the child later on to understand Macbeth, or Don Quixote, or David Copperfield. "
― Anthony Esolen , Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child
4 " It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people. "
― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Great Gatsby
5 " It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery. "
6 " Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are. "
