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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."

"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."

"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
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"Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means."

"I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom."

"If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world."

"It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man."

"Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it."

"I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses."

"Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all."

"Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle."
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