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Society
A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza.
Samuel Johnson
AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century
3.1 · 32 votes · 139 reads
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Time
A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century
3.1 · 43 votes · 164 reads
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Defects
Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
Charles Caleb Colton
AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century
4.8 · 49 votes · 161 reads
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Art and Culture
A book that is shut is but a block.
Thomas de Quincey
AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century
3.6 · 56 votes · 67 reads
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Virtues
A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
Eric Hoffer
AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century
4.5 · 63 votes · 137 reads
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Art and Culture
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
Aldous Huxley
AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century
3.6 · 23 votes · 24 reads
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Art and Culture
A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there, that of the pulse, the hear
Henry Miller
AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century
3.0 · 17 votes · 75 reads
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Art and Culture
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
Norman Vincent Peale
AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century
4.6 · 55 votes · 72 reads
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Art and Culture
A multitude of books distracts the mind.
Sir Thomas Browne
AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century
3.6 · 34 votes · 169 reads
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Art and Culture
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
Christian Nestell Bovee
AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century
3.7 · 52 votes · 189 reads
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