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Only two classes of books are of universal appeal: the very best and the very worst.

— Ford Madox Ford Joseph Conrad : A Personal Remembrance (1924)

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This is the saddest story I have ever heard.

The Good Soldier (1915)

For the judging of contemporary literature the only test is one's personal taste.

The March of Literature (1939)

Pride and reserve are not the only things in life; perhaps they are not even the best things. But if they happen to be your particular virtues you will go all to pieces if you let them go.

The Good Soldier (1915)

I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him.

The Good Soldier (1915)

You may well ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many.

The Good Soldier (1915)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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