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He was a learned man, of immense reading, but is much blamed for his unfaithfull quotations.

— John Aubrey

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The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.

How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellows as I am put them down.

There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.

He pronounced the letter R (littera canina) very hard – a certaine signe of a Satyricall Witt.

His complexion exceeding faire – he was so faire that they called him the Lady of Christ's College.

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Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

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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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