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- The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.
- James Goldsmith
- The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
- Christopher Dawson
- Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
- Rufus Choate
- The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air.
- Simms
- Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.
- James Ramsey
- I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.
- Author Unknown
- Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.
- R. W. Alger
- Man has made some machines that can answer questions provided the facts are profusely stored in them, but we will never be able to make a machine that will ask questions. The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer.
- Thomas J. Watson
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