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I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

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A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find his weak point.

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Books are for nothing but to inspire

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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

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There are books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so autho...more

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Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious t...more

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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

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Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it no excess of explanation and it is full of suggestions the raw material of possi...more

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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

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To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calami...more

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Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly m...more

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Tis the good reader that makes the good book.