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“What do you see here?”
“Books?”
“Indeed, books. They are the ocean in which magic swims.”

— Django Wexler The Forbidden Library (2014)

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But it’s not justice that they’re mostly concerned with, it’s division of the loot.

The Mad Apprentice (2015)

Maybe that’s wisdom, seeing things that are obvious.

The Fall of the Readers (2017)

Magic, you’ll find, is nine parts dull to one part excitement, and the exciting bits usually hurt like the blazes.

The Forbidden Library (2014)

The more he didn’t know, she reasoned, the easier he would be to fool.

The Palace of Glass (2016)

Of course, where magic is involved, appearances don’t mean much.

The Palace of Glass (2016)

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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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