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"No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book."
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"You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by."
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"Whate'er I read to her. I'll plead for youAs for my patron, stand you so assured,As firmly as yourself were in still place - Yea, and perhaps with more successful wordsThan you, unless you were a scholar, sir.O this learning, what a thing it is!"
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"Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it."
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"Dare to read."
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"The greatest treasures are books."
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"Do not be ready to listen to anyone who is ready to show you your past mistakes instead, be ready to listen to someone who is ready to show you the untold lessons from your past mistakes so that you may be able to skip your future mistakes."
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"We do not need to teach our children how to fight. We need to teach our children the miraculousness and transientness of life."
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"We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree."
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"This corn will teach to you, should you peel away the husk, and be willing to open your ears."
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"Self learner, reading."
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"The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven."
Life
"Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise."
Fear
"As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers."
Life
"The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence."
Books
"It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing."
Work
"Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature."
Family
"Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action."
Faith
"Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth."
Imagination
"Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you."
Will
"Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control."
Control
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