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"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
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"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,487 people liked it

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
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"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: books
61 people liked it

"Tis the good reader that makes the good book."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: books
15 people liked it

"Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: books
6 people liked it

"Every hero becomes a bore at last."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (Representative Men: Seven Lectures)

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"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
9,258 people liked it

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
6,586 people liked it

"When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead."
— Robin Hobb (Assassin's Apprentice)

tags: truth
23 people liked it

"Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power."
— Robin Hobb

tags: diplomacy
7 people liked it

"Never laugh at live dragons"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: dragons, wisdom
367 people liked it

"It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

100 people liked it

"If more of us valued food and cheer above hoarded gold, it would be a much merrier world."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: food, happiness
470 people liked it

"I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
"Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are nice."
— Terry Pratchett (Sourcery)

177 people liked it

"Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive."
— Terry Pratchett (Guards! Guards!)

13 people liked it

"Fairy tales, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, inspirational
2,547 people liked it

"Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: education, ignorance, indoctrination
80 people liked it

"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."
— G.K. Chesterton

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"The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen."
— G.K. Chesterton

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"Never do anything yourself that others can do for you."
— Agatha Christie

68 people liked it

"The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. "
— Agatha Christie

tags: writing
39 people liked it

""Poirot" I said. "I have been thinking."
"An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.""
— Agatha Christie (Peril at End House)

tags: humor, thinking
28 people liked it

"The simplest explanation is always the most likely."
— Agatha Christie

tags: simple
20 people liked it

"“There was no unkindness in Miss Marple, she just did not trust people. Though she expected the worst, she often accepted people kindly in spite of what they were.“ "
— Agatha Christie

3 people liked it

"Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master."
— Agatha Christie (The Mysterious Affair at Styles)

tags: imagination
4 people liked it

"When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!"
— Agatha Christie (The Mysterious Affair at Styles)

tags: honesty
3 people liked it

"I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe."
— Richard P. Feynman

tags: philosophical
7 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
11,027 people liked it

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books
807 people liked it

"To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

69 people liked it

"Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either. "
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

3 people liked it

"I came, I saw, I conquered "
— Gaius Julius Caesar

tags: war
21 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
14,559 people liked it

"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."
— Albert Camus

tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
717 people liked it

"Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until your forehead bleeds."
— Douglas Adams

tags: craft, humor, writing
591 people liked it

"But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world."
— Umberto Eco (The Island of the Day Before)

tags: story, teaching, writing
2 people liked it

"The purpose of the writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."
— Albert Camus

tags: writing
3 people liked it

"Writers are archeologists of themselves."
— Vicki Grove

tags: writers, writing
2 people liked it

"The desire to write grows with writing."
— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

tags: writing
3 people liked it

"We write to know we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: writing
2 people liked it

"When writing a novel a writer should create living people, not characters. A character is a caricature."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: writing
2 people liked it

"Journal writing is a voyage to the interior."
— Christina Baldwin

tags: baldwin, christina, journal, journaling, writing
4 people liked it

"A book comes and says, 'Write me.'"
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: writing
5 people liked it

"When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing."
— Ursula K. LeGuin

tags: dreaming, writing
10 people liked it

"The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table of contents. Anyone who lets himself go and starts reading a book is lost as a librarian...He's bound to lose perspective."
— Robert Musil (The Man Without Qualities)

tags: librarians, library
6 people liked it

"Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!"
— Charles Ogden

tags: books, librarians, libraries
78 people liked it

"There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library."
— Ray Bradbury

60 people liked it

"Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me."
— Anatole France

tags: books, lending, library
33 people liked it

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