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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about
Everything is good as it leaves the hands of the author of things, degenerates in the hands of man
The great objection to new books is that they prevent our reading old ones
The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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