Today Quotes
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Tis the good reader that makes the good book.Ralph Waldo Emerson
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.Henry David Thoreau
True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.Hugh Blair
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