frontmatter/motto.tex

   1 \documentclass[../thesis.tex]{subfiles}
   2
   3 \begin{document}
   4 \ifSubfilesClassLoaded{
   5         \pagenumbering{roman}
   6 }{}
   7
   8 \topskip0pt
   9 \vspace*{\fill}
  10 \epigraph{%
  11         The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
  12 }{%
  13         Howard Philip Lovecraft
  14 }
  15 \epigraph{%
  16         \selectlanguage{russian}
  17         Рукописи не горят\\
  18         \selectlanguage{british}
  19         (Manuscripts don't burn)
  20 }{%
  21         \selectlanguage{russian}
  22         Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков\\
  23         \selectlanguage{british}
  24         (Mikhail Afanesyevich Bulgakov)
  25 }
  26 \epigraph{%
  27         You start a question, and it's like starting a stone.
  28         You sit quietly on the top of a hill;
  29         and away the stone goes, starting others;
  30         \ldots
  31 }{%
  32         Robert Louis Stevenson
  33 }
  34 \epigraph{%
  35         I never thought, when I used to read books, what work it was to write them\ldots
  36         It's work enough to read them sometimes\ldots
  37         As to the writing, it has its own charms.
  38 }{%
  39         Charles John Huffam Dickens
  40 }
  41 \vspace*{\fill}%
  42 \end{document}