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Oh for a book and a shady nook...

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You can cover a great deal of country in books.

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I read part of it all the way through.

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Live always in the best company when you read.

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The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it.

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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

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A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

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I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

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Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

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