Phrases with «man of letters»

It is not to produce two hostile camps — of engineers and of men of letters — who neither understand one another nor care to. (religion-online.org)
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. (goodreads.com)
He may have become a leading man of letters, but he did it financed by the ill - gotten gains of early crime. (booklistonline.com)
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