I cannot live without books.
-Thomas Jefferson
But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands,
perhaps millions, think.
-Lord Byron
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"To learn to read is to light a fire;
every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."
-Victor Hugo
Les Miserables
It's better to keep your mouth shut
and appear stupid than to open it
and remove all doubt.
-Mark Twain
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
-Ben Franklin
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
-Arnold Lobel
It may be history,
it may be only legend, a tradition.
It may have happened,
it may not have happened:
But it could have happened.
-Mark Twain
The love of learning,
The sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
-Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
You may deceive all the people part of the time,
and part of the people all the time,
but not all the people all the time.
-Abraham Lincoln
What is wisdom?
Wisdom is God's point of view.
-James Dobson
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Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.
-J.P. Morgan
Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings.
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
