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"The wise are above books."
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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
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"When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults."
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"I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world."
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"We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study."
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"Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please."
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"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
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"In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them."
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"The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it."
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"What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so."
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"It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old."
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"Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been."
Beauty


"The wise are above books."
Books


"We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes."
Man


"And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world."
World


"By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown."
Admiration


"Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using."
Love


"Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art."
Nature


"The stars that have most glory have no rest."
Glory


"Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb."
Grief
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