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By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with past ages.

— Jeremy Collier Treasury of Thought (1881)

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A poet's mind should be clear and unsullied; and the muses being virgins, their performances should agree with their condition.

Treasury of Thought (1881)

Goodness is generous and diffusive; it is largeness of mind, and sweetness of temper, — balsam in the blood, and justice sublimated to a richer spirit.

Treasury of Thought (1881)

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

Miscellanies upon Moral Subjects (1685)

Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element.

Treasury of Thought (1881)

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

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

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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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