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When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

— Clifton Fadiman

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An aphorism can contain only as much wisdom as overstatement will permit.

Both the aphorism and the poem channel man’s wild impulse to escape the systems another part of him has so carefully constructed.

Not to cover the subject, but to uncover and isolate a part of it … is the aim of the aphorist

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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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