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By the same proportion that a penny saved is a penny gained, the preserver of books is a Mate for the Compiler of them.

— Thomas Fuller The History of the Worthies of England (1662)

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He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.

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A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.

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Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high.

Though blood be the best sauce for victory, yet must it not be more than the meat.

The History of the Holy War (1639)

They that marry ancient people, merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter.

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

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

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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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