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Ptolemy's Geography is the only book on cartography to have survived from the classical period and one of the most influential scientific works of all time.

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Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.

As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.

We consider it a good principle to explain the phenomena by the simplest hypothesis possible.

The length of lifetakes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.

There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or through pleasure and pain.

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

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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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