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Book Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity
- It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of subconscious…
- It is impossible to read in America, except on a train, because of the telephone. Everyone has a telephone, and it rings all day and…
- All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches.
- If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.
- There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
- A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in with other peoples.…
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