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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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"Fiction offers the best means of understanding people different from oneself, short of experience. Actually, fiction can be lots better than experience, because it's a manageable size, it's comprehensible, while experience just steamrollers over you and you understand what happened decades later, if ever."
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Personal Development
"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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"Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature."
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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 fine gentleman like that, they said, had no need of books. Let him leave books, they said, to the palsied or the dying. But worse was to come. For once the disease of reading has laid hold upon the system it weakens it so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing."
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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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