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"The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all."
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"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."

"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."

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"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."

"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."

"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."
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"The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection."

"If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank."

"A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it."

"There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things."

"We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these."
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