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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books
The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all
The richest minds need not large libraries
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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