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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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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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All things are engaged in writing their history...Not a foot steps into the snow, or along the ground, but prints in characters more or less lasting, ...more

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All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

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Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

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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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There is properly no history only biography.

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One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

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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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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.