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Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding read more
There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.
People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want read more
People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.
Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he read more
Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, read more
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
