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Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519), The notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci by Macurdy
Everything comes to him who waits but a loaned book.
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Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
Great use they have, when in the hands
Of one like me, who understands,
Who understands the time and place,
The person, manner, and the grace,
Which fools neglect; so that we find,
If all the requisites are join'd,
From whence a perfect joke must spring,
A joke's a very serious thing.
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Charles Churchill, "The Ghost", 1762, Book IV, lines 1379-1387
He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.
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John Milton (1608 - 1674)
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
That mine adversary had written a book.
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Bible, Job xxxi. 35.
Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
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Bible, Ecclesiastes xii. 12.
For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.
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James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
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