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"Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me."

John Green, American Author

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"Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time."

Hilary Mantel, British Novelist

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"When you read a book put all of your effort into staying present and focus your energy towards the comprehension of each and every word and how you can apply it into your daily life."

Matthew Donnelly, American Author

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"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

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"Read in order to live."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting."

Mary Wortley Montagu, English Writer

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"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare."

Anthony Burgess, English Novelist

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"There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye."

Soul, Eye, Smile

"Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity."

Justice, Nothing, Publicity

"Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought."

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"Learn as much by writing as by reading."

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"The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections."

Democracy, Elections, Evil, Force

"Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith."

Faith, Government, Profession, Public

"The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future."

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"The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority."

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"If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh."

Nothing, Today

"There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion."

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