"As for thy thirst after books, away with it with all speed."

Books, Reading, Speed, Knowledge

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"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"Read much, but not many books."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"Books are humanity in print."

Barbara Tuchman, American Historian

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"We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Books, Contempt, Desire, Glory

"Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever."

George Orwell, British Author

Books, Feeling, Job

"I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something."

Nicholas Sparks, American Author

Books, Old, Years

"Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind."

Nicholas Sparks, American Author

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"A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it."

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"Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so."

Will

"When you are disturbed by events and lose your serenity, quickly return to yourself and don't stay upset longer than the experience lasts; for you'll have more mastery over your inner harmony by continually returning to it."

Mindfulness

"The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues."

Character

"Human life. Duration: momentary. Nature: changeable. Perception: dim. Condition of Body: decaying. Soul: spinning around. Fortune: unpredictable. Lasting Fame: uncertain. Sum Up: The body and its parts are a river, the soul a dream and mist, life is warfare and a journey far from home, lasting reputation is oblivion."

Philosophy

"What am I but a little flesh, a little breath, and the thinking part that rules the whole?"

Existence

"Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last."

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"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."

"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."

"Read much, but not many books."

"Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion."

"Books are humanity in print."

"We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names."

"Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever."

"I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something."

"Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind."

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"Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it."

"Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so."

"When you are disturbed by events and lose your serenity, quickly return to yourself and don't stay upset longer than the experience lasts; for you'll have more mastery over your inner harmony by continually returning to it."

"The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues."

"Poverty is the mother of crime."

"Praise does not make anything better or worse."

"Every man is worth just so much as the things about which he busies himself."

"What am I but a little flesh, a little breath, and the thinking part that rules the whole?"

"Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last."