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"Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views."
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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

"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."

"We encounter great souls by reading great books."

"There is no other enjoyment like reading."

"Reading opens up other pockets of the mind."

"Readers may be divided into four classes: I. Sponges, who absorb all they read, and return it nearly in the same state, only a little dirtied. II. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing, and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. III. Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. IV. Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also."
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"We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any."

"The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea."

"They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know."

"Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past."

"Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord."
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