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"Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them."
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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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"Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself."
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"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
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"Read much, but not many books."
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"Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion."
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"Books are humanity in print."
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"We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names."
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"You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them."
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"Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever."
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"The public do not know enough to be experts yet know enough to decide between them."
Society
"I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies."
Knowledge
"Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon."
Virtue
"Loyalty is still the same Whether it win or lose the game True as a dial to the sun Although it be not shined upon."
Virtue
"In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved."
Marriage
"Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone."
Life
"The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us like the Kingdom of Heaven rather than without."
Spiritual
"Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes."
Knowledge
"Words are clothes that thoughts wear."
Language
"Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden not silence."
Ethics
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