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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."

"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."

"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
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"It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other."

"Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?"

"Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace."

"What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances."
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