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"Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out."
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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."

"Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies - for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry - I say to myself, "What a pity I can't buy that book, for I already have a copy at home."

"Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic."
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"There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive."

"The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck."

"The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure."

"Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry."

"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn."
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