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What is even a wise book but a blast from the lungs made visible to the eyes?

— Hervey Allen Anthony Adverse (1933)

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A victory for any side is a defeat for every side now.

Action at Aquila (1938)

It is only men of genuine philosophical sense who can understand that the form of government is the most important thing in the world.

Action at Aquila (1938)

A great longing for that happy, waltzing, music-box time came over him.

Action at Aquila (1938)

Southward, two mighty ranges of the Appalachians shouldered their way into the blue distance like tremendous caravans marching across eternity.

Action at Aquila (1938)

Every new generation...is a fresh invasion of savages.

Anthony Adverse (1933)

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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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