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"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
"I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an escape from the intolerable, a doorway into impossibly hospitable worlds where things had rules and could be understood; stories had been a way of learning about life without experiencing it, or perhaps of experiencing it as an eighteenth-century poisoner dealt with poisons, taking them in tiny doses, such that the poisoner could cope with ingesting things that would kill someone who was not inured to them. Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it."
"Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion."
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"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."
"Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."
"He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft."
"Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime."
"Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not."
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