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Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

— Rufus Choate

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The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag, and keep step to the music of the Union.

Its constitution the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

Letter to the Maine Whig Committee (1856)

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

Dictionary of American Maxims‎ (1955)

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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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