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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

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Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed

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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

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Society is now one polished horde, --- Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.

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Whoever in prayer can say, "Our Father," acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.

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The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not "to have and to hold" but "to give and serve." There can be no other meaning.

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To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers.

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