Holbrook Jackson Quotes

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• The end of reading is not more books but more life.
• Books worth reading are worth re-reading.
• Intuition is reason in a hurry.
• Your readiest desire is your path to joy... even if it destroys you.
• A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of…
• We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.
• Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.
• Your library is your portrait.
• Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
• Love is the most subtle form of self-interest.
• Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.
• Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.
• Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and how…
• When in doubt, risk it
• Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.
• Sacrifice is a form of bargaining.
• Be contented, when you have got all you want.
• Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?
• Originality is only variation.
• The newest books are those that never grow old.

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