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"Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author."
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"No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction."
Money
"There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other."
Education
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."
Knowledge
"When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live."
Life
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
Man
"Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again."
Change
"To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity."
Perseverance
"A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him."
Ambition
"Friendship peculiar boon of Heaven The noble mind's delight and pride To men and angels only given To all the lower world denied."
Relationship
"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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"Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire."
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"A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so well."
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"I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt."
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"If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!' It will be about how the whole thing stands up."
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"It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language."
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"Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house."
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"A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures."
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"And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book."
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"Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world gives to him, whereas fiction is a thing which he gives to the world."
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"To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object. Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written. It is not enough even to be able to speak the language of that nation by which they are written, for there is a memorable interval between the spoken and the written language, the language heard and the language read."
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