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We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realise all they tell us.

— Mary Augusta Ward The History of David Grieve (1891)

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Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system!

Robert Elsmere (1888)

There is nothing more startling in human relations than the strong emotions of weak people.

The History of David Grieve (1891)

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

Robert Elsmere (1888)

All things change,—creeds and philosophies and outward systems,—but God remains!

Robert Elsmere (1888)

But the mind travels far—and mysteriously—in sleep.

A Writer's Recollections (1918)

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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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