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"I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please."
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"What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever."
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"If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads."
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"It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them, but one usually confuses the purchase of books with the acquisition of their contents."
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"A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set his heart. If the passion for reading conquers him, his gains dwindle and vanish between his fingers. A reader, on the other hand, must check the desire for learning at the outset; if knowledge sticks to him well and good, but to go in pursuit of it, to read on a system, to become a specialist or an authority, is very apt to kill what suits us to consider the more humane passion for pure and disinterested reading."
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"If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all."
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"And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end."
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"I am a machine condemned to devour books."
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"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."
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"Read for the sake of using others knowledge to find your own inner guidance."
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"With a book he was regardless of time."
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"Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves."
Mindfulness
"No man is exempt from saying silly things, the mischief is to say them deliberately."
Behavior
"Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul."
Soul
"The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness."
Soul
"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul."
Soul
"There is no passion so contagious as that of fear."
Fear
"There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened."
Fear
"Desire and hope will push us on toward the future."
Future
"It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength."
Strength
"The thing I fear most is fear."
Fear
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