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I come from the kind of house where if my father saw me with a book in my hand he'd say, "Can you not find something better to do?"

— Bernard MacLaverty The Great Profundo and Other Stories (1987)

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A bird's-eye view does not see the truth.

Lamb (1980)

"It concentrates the mind wonderfully knowing that this [life] is all we can expect."

The Great Profundo and Other Stories (1987)

"There's not much you can do in this world without people getting to know."

The Great Profundo and Other Stories (1987)

It is disconcerting to find that an acquaintance considers you his best friend, his soul mate, but I could do nothing about it.

The Great Profundo and Other Stories (1987)

"I always say that a man with one language is like a man with one eye."

Lamb (1980)

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

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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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