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"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."
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"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."
"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."
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"For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."
"Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives,When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives,Sweet as a song that once consoled our pain,But never will be sung to us again,Is they remembrance. Now the hour of restHath come to thee. Sleep, darling: it is best."
"There was an old belief that in the embersOf all things their primordial form exists, And cunning alchemistsCould re-create the rose with all its membersFrom its own ashes, but without the bloom, Without the lost perfume Ah me! what wonder-working, occult scienceCan from the ashes in our hearts once more The rose of youth restore?What craft of alchemy can bid defianceTo time and change, and for a single hour Renew this phantom-flower?"
"Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity."
"Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author."
"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."
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