"When you find that a book is poor……" — James Bryce

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— James Bryce

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25 Quotes by James Bryce

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Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and…
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their…
I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found…
A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.
To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.
There is in the American Government...a want of unity.... The Sailors, the helmsman, the engineer, do not seem to have…
Perhaps the most typically American place in America.
Life is too short for reading inferior books.
Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he…
The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many…

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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