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The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

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It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

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What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

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I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy.

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I cannot live without books.

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The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

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Everything comes to him who waits but a loaned book.

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I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

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Common sense is as rare as genius.

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The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

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