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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

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The years teach us much, which the days never knew.

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Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than ...more

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When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope t...more

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A world in the hand is worth two in the bush.

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We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret exp...more

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Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.