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I’m a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

— John Millington Synge

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There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

The Aran Islands (1907)

What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?

Riders to the Sea (1904)

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured as a nut or apple.

The Playboy of the Western World (1907)

They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.

The Playboy of the Western World (1907)

These are rotten, so you’re the Queen
Of all are living, or have been.

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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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