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The man who said the pen was mightier than the sword ought to have tried reading "The Mill on the Floss" to Motor Mechanics.

— Tom Sharpe Wilt (1976)

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I have yet to meet a liberal who can withstand the attrition of prolonged discussion of the inessentials.

Porterhouse Blue (1971)

By shooting your cook you were refusing him permission to enter your house.

Riotous Assembly (1971)

His had been an intellectual decision founded on his conviction that if a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal.

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While he lived a violent life in his imagination, Eva, lacking any imagination at all, lived violently in fact.

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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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