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John Lubbock

"Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books."

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"Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books."

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"Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind."

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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."

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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."

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"I agreed on condition that we found a completely new concept that had nothing to do with the latest books."

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"Without story books is like a person with no soul."

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"My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel."

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"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."

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"A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door."

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"I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that."

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"The best books... are those that tell you what you know already."

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"Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not."
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"When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace."
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"We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety."
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"Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it."
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"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."
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"Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven."
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"A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work."
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"If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done."
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