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I certainly think that the best book in the world would owe the most to a good index, and the worst book, if it had but a single good thought in it, might be kept alive by it. - Horace Binney, to S. Austin Allibone Time is of more value than type, and the wear and tear of the temper than an extra page of index. - Rachel Harriette Busk So essential did I consider an index to be to every book, that I proposed to bring a bill into Parliament to deprive an author who publishes a book without an index of the privilege of copyright, and, moreover, to subject him for his offense to a pecuniary penalty. - Lord John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell, Live of the Chief Justices of England (preface to Vol. III) An index is a necessary implement. * * * Without this, a large author is but a labyrinth without a clue to direct the readers within. - Thomas Fuller (1), Worthies of England I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") The index tells us the contents of stories and directs to the particular chapters. - Philip Massinger and Nathan Field, The Fatal Dowry (act IV, sc. 1) How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tale. - Alexander Pope, The Dunciad (bk. I, l. 279) Ay me, what act, That roars so loud and thunders in the index? - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Gertrude, Queen of Denmark at III, iv) For the success, Although particular, shall give a scantling Of good or bad unto the general; And in such indexes, although small pricks To their subsequent volumes, there is seen The baby figure of the giant mass Of things to come at large. - William Shakespeare, The History of Troilus and Cressida (Nestor at I, iii) If a book has no index or good table of contents, it is very useful to make one as you are reading it. - Isaac Watts
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