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The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper — whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

— Sarah Orne Jewett

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The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.

The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)

I'd rather be my honest self
Than any made-up daisy.

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)

The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.

The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)

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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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