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(11 votes)   Intuition is reason in a hurry.

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(42 votes)   A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with a sort of greedy enjoyment, as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was saturated with the bouquet of silence.

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(38 votes)   Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

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1874-1948, British Essayist, Literary Historian,

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(31 votes)   The newest books are those that never grow old.

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1874-1948, British Essayist, Literary Historian,

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(30 votes)   Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

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(27 votes)   A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

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(14 votes)   Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

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(14 votes)   Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

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(13 votes)   Genius is initiative on fire.

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(12 votes)   No man is ever old enough to know better.

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(12 votes)   The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.

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(12 votes)   Your library is your portrait.

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(11 votes)   Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.

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(11 votes)   The end of reading is not more books but more life.

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(10 votes)   A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.

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