A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
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A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.
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God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.
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I am glad my ancestors arrived on the Mayflower, but I am gladder that there are nine generations between us.
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I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
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If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.
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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.
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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.
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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.
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One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
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The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
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The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
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Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.
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Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.
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