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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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"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
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Personal Development

"Read much, but not many books."
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Personal Development

"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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"Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones."
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"I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something."
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"Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy."
Health

"You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks."
Courage

"Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking."
Ambition

"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."
Courage

"War is the business of barbarians."
War

"I often asked Laplace what he thought of God. He owned that he was an atheist."
Philosophy

"The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain."
Money

"Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize."
Music

"Always carry champagne! In victory You deserve it & in defeat You need it!"
Celebration

"My downfall raises me to infinite heights."
Resilience
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