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"Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery."
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"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig."

"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."

"As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too."

"Reading books exposes us to the consistency and uniqueness of being human. Book reading is an investigatory process. We read books in order to encounter the orchestrated words that describe emotions and observations that we too have experienced but are unable to glean the right alignment of words that fully embody the resonance that we seek."

"Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect."
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"Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things."

"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."

"Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope."

"Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead."

"Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country."
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