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"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet."
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"A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never."

"Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for."

"I don't know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards."

"A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult."

"We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios."
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"Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power."

"I don't say tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it."

"Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others' retiring."

"A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly."

"There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life."

"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet."
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