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Gentlemen use books as Gentlewomen handle their flowers, who in the morning stick them in their heads, and at night strawe them at their heeles.

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Fish and guests in three days are stale.

The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble; many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Euphues (1580)

Lips are no part of the head, only made for a double-leaf door for the mouth.

Midas (1591)

There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.

Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.

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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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