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"It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents."
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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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"In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions."

"To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle."
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