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"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."
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Personal Development
"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."
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Personal Development
"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."
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Personal Development
"Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself."
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Personal Development
"I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil."
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Personal Development
"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
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Personal Development
"Read much, but not many books."
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Personal Development
"Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion."
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"Books are humanity in print."
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"We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names."
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"Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity."
Architecture
"The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope."
Hope
"The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect."
Sense
""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
First
"The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty."
Beauty
"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."
Nature
"Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances."
Quality
"Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun."
Children
"Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it."
Books
"No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built."
Life
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