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All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

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I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

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Woe be to him that reads but one book.

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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

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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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