“The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.”
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“The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.”
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“Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.”
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“There's nothing that keeps its youth, so far as I know, but a tree and truth.”
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“Beware how you take away hope from another human being”
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“Science is the topography of ignorance.”
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“Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.”
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“What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundre...”
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“The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.”
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