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- Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
- Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
- I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
- Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
- When in doubt tell the truth.
- '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.
- The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
- My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
- The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
- Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
- It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and…
- What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
- In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without…
- You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking…
- I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but…
- I don't want no better book than what your face is.
- Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
- What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is…
- A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it.…
- The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told…
- Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
- Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
- Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.
- A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
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