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"Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it."
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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

"There is no other enjoyment like reading."

"Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes."

"The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination."

"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."

"Kindle, isn't it? the waitress asked. "I got one for Christmas, and I love it. I'm reading my way through all of Jodi Picoult's books. "Oh, probably not all of them, Wesley said. "Huh? Why not? "She's probably got another one done already. That's all I meant. "And James Patterson's probably written one since he got up this morning! she said, and went off chortling."

"I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned."
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"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."

"When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness."

"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."

"No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will."

"There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means."

"Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed."

"There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of."
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