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"The true university of these days is a collection of books."
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"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."
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"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."
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"Perhaps this new kind of reading will appeal to us after we give it a try."
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"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."
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"I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair."
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"Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?"
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"Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself."
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"I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil."
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"Books are a narcotic."
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"Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost."
Growth
"Be worthy love, and love will come."
Love
"I'm always ready to talk, shouldn't be a woman if I were not,' laughed Mrs. Jo."
Humor
"Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music so is statuary crystalized spirituality."
Art
"Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty..."
Courage
"It's genius simmering, perhaps. I'll let it simmer, and see what comes of it, he said, with a secret suspicion all the while that it wasn't genius, but something far more common. Whatever it was, it simmered to some purpose, for he grew more and more discontented with his desultory life, began to long for some real and earnest work to go at, soul and body, and finally came to the wise conclusion that everyone who loved music was not a composer."
Creativity
"Who are your heroes?" asked Jo."Grandfather and Napoleon."
Inspirational
"Boys don't gush, so I can stand it. The last time I let in a party of girls, one fell into my arms and said, "Darling, love me!" I wanted to shake her,' answered Mrs. Jo, wiping her pen with energy."
Humor
"Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace."
Writing
"I want to be great or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber so I don't intend to try any more."
Ambition
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