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There is something fairly deeply ingrained in our culture, and there probably is a real difference in early reading ability – girls are way ahead.

— Mary Archer

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I'm not in the business of writing my story.

Intimations of old age are much easier to face together. That’s not to say the marriage gets easier, but it would be very much harder growing old without each other.

Its thesis, that success for a woman is perhaps more broadly based than for a man, is absolutely true.

Fidelity is a great quality but kindness, loyalty and resilience are also very important in bad times.

A partnership is about helping your partner in time of difficulty. That is when it matters. I am just not a quitter.

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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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