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Oh, no, no, no! Couldn't think of it. It's a very dangerous book. Had a very bad influence.

— Norman Lindsay

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If anyone assumes that going one's own way is the easy way, they are very much in error. There's no harder way to go.

The best love affairs are those we never had.

Sex is not only the basis of life, it is the reason for life.

Let your conduct be noble, and never sing the National Anthem to people wearing bell-toppers.

The Magic Pudding (1918)

In the art of biography, the idolator is just as objectionable as the debunker.

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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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