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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."

"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."

"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
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"A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn."

"We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety."

"Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven."

"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."

"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."

"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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