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Listening to your tape, I was reminded of this poem. It has the central question: Is it harder to count on someone or to know… — Janeane Garofalo
PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method (according to Mimbleshaw's classification) of obtaining money by false pretences. It consists in reading character in the wrinkles made by… — Ambrose Bierce
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. — Mark Twain
Why don't you write books people can read? — Unknown Author
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts.… — Winston Churchill
I have made it so perfectly clear in my tracts, articles, and books what was to be done that all Parliament has had to do… — George Bernard Shaw
You are the same today that you are going to be in five years from now except for two things: the people with whom you… — Charles Jones
This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for… — Walt Whitman
He [Shakespeare] was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul . . . He was… — John Dryden
Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, where, creeping in… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It is not the number of books you read, nor the variety of sermons you hear, nor the amount of religious conversation in which you… — Frederick W Robertson
If the 1st Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books… — Thurgood Marshall
Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to every question, there… — Graham Greene
The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to… — Carolyn Wells
Books didn't figure in my family very much. . . . However, my grandmother's attic was full of old, old books . . . In… — William H. Gass
Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a different alphabet, but… — John McPhee
Then came human beings, they wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to. Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the… — Albert Camus
Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes;… — Robert Green Ingersoll
When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'. — Hilaire Belloc
Whatever books you may read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. One must put it into practice. That sense of oneness can… — Sri Sathya Sai Baba

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