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"In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them."
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"A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door."
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Personal Development
"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."
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"The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it."
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"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."
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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
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"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"
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"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."
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"They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along."
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"The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me."
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"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
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"Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us."
God
"A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat."
Family
"Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain."
Nothing
"They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black."
Colors
"Philosophy is nothing but discretion."
Philosophy
"In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them."
Books
"Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another."
Thought
"It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess."
Vice
"The world cannot be governed without juggling."
World
"No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man."
Wisdom
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