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Dear little child, this little book
Is less a primer than a key
To sunder gates where wonder waits
Your "Open Sesame!"

— Rupert Hughes

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Woman's intuition is the result of millions of years of not thinking.

When an actor loses control of himself he loses control of his audience.

Horace said: "He who would make others weep, must first have wept himself." Every motion picture director should have that on his wall.

We could make some very fine motion pictures if we didn't have to bother with cameras and lights.

You can't use imitation silk before the motion picture camera. The lens is even quicker to detect imitation emotion.

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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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