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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preser...more

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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

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The true university of these days is a collection of books.

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Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

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No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lyingas in magic preservation in the pages of Books. ...more

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My books are friends that never fai

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All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

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All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.

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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight ...more