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- Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519), The notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci by Macurdy
- Everything comes to him who waits but a loaned book.
- 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. - 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.
- John Milton (1608 - 1674)
- I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
- Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
- Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
- 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.
- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
- That mine adversary had written a book.
- Bible, Job xxxi. 35.
- Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
- 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.
- James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
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