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The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of his victim's cheque-books.

— Silas Weir Mitchell

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Death’s but one more to-morrow.

I must have told my story ill if to every physician who hears me its illustrations have not the invigorating force of moral tonics.

When youth was lord of my unchallenged fate,
And time seemed but the vassal of my will,
I entertained certain guests of state—
The great of older days.

Up anchor! Up anchor!
Set sail and away!
The ventures of dreamland
Are thine for a day.

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

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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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