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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured…
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry;…
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;…
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show…
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to…
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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— Jan Morris
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Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there…
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I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a…
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In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.
— George Gissing
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It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.
— Samuel Johnson
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The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.
— Isaac Barrow
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Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.
— Samuel Johnson
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I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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