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"Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em."
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"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
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"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
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"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
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"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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"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."
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"Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out."
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"To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films."
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"You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here."
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"I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess."
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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
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"Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em."
Books
"Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding."
Love
"Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it."
Beauty
"He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?"
Wife
"Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly."
Being
"Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business."
Business
"I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better."
Man
"Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before."
Love
"Women serve but to keep a man from better company."
Woman
"Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures."
Friendship
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