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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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"Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."

"Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."
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