All Quotes
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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.Voltaire
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.Martin Fraquhar Tupper
Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity.Spanish Proverb
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.Sir Richard Steele
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.Thomas Carlyle
The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.Lord Acton
If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.Yugoslav Proverb
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.Immanuel Kant
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.Ferdinand Foch
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.Albert Einstein