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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).

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′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.

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If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

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The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me wi...more

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove...more

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A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it ...more

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A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat a...more

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The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then ...more

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Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

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Be wise as a serpent and wary as a dove!

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Human nature is all alike.

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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.