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This book — amber-clear, cool and with a good head — deserves a thoughtful swig even from people who never drink.

— John Wain As given in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988)

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How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar!

As given in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988)

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

The lesson is that dying men must groan;
And poets groan in rhymes that please the ear.

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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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