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"Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed."
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"The true university of these days is a collection of books."
"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."
"Perhaps this new kind of reading will appeal to us after we give it a try."
"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."
"I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair."
"Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?"
"Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000."
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"I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose."
"Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to."
"When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over."
"The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit."
"You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill."
"Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves."
"The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies."
"The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor."
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