"Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam……" — Melvil Dewey

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• Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood… — Diane Ackerman
• Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine
• Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story,… — Paul Auster
• The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. — Teresa of Avila
• In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of… — Teresa of Avila
• But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while… — Honore de Balzac
• Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen. — Aeschylus
• But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals. — Usain Bolt
• Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that… — Moustapha Akkad
• I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point. — Michael Caine
• Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk… — Albert Camus
• When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the… — Marc Chagall

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