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Mr Abrahams was a preparatory schoolmaster of the old-fashioned sort. He cared neither for work nor games, but fed his boys well and saw that they did...more

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A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered ...more

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I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than w...more

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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

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Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.