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The multitude of books is making us ignorant
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil
Words are only painted fire; a book is the fire itself
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own
�Classic�. A book which people praise and don't read
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them
No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
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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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