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"A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature."
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"A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature."
Literature
"It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain."
Gentleman
"Ability is sexless."
Ability
"The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men."
Love
"It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing."
Men
"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."
Change
"Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall ever have a beginning."
Life
"Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish."
Act
"A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise."
Wisdom
"If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar."
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"Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire."
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"A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so well."
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Personal Development
"Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature."
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Personal Development
"I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt."
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"If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!' It will be about how the whole thing stands up."
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"It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language."
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"Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house."
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"A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures."
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"I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'"
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"And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book."
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