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"I write books to find out about things."
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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."
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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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"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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"Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is."
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"All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears."
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