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"The true university of these days is a collection of books."

"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."

"Perhaps this new kind of reading will appeal to us after we give it a try."

"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."

"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."

"Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?"

"Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000."
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"Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle."

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

"Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means."

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

"Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death."

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

"It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?"
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