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Words are only painted fire; a book is the fire itself
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own
�Classic�. A book which people praise and don't read
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them
No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
A home without books is a body without soul
People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library
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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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