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"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."
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"Experience is a master teacher, even when it's not our own."

"I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good t."

"I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing."

"Always we learn things and then we forget them."

"Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows."

"Humanity had to expand the limits of its consciousness to learn to ask the right questions."

"One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see and represent all things as though they were flat and had only two dimensions. This, somehow, seemed to render all matters of intellect shallow and worthless."
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"When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life."

"People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too."

"If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them."

"All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim."
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