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"A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer."
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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

"A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure."

"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."

"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system."

"He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow."

"When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman."
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"Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing."

"It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important."

"With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how."

"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."

"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."
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