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"After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all."
— A.S.W. Rosenbach (Book Hunter's Holiday: Adventures With Books and Manuscripts)

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"I cannot live without books."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: books
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"The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait."
— Anatole Broyard

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"When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes."
— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

tags: books
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"We believe in books. Somehow we want to make childhood better, and we believe that a book given at the right moment can work magic in a child's life."
— Ann Schlee

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

tags: books, soul
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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
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"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
— Bessie Anderson Stanley

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"Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

tags: integrity
4,782 people liked it

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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"Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind."
— Henry James

tags: kindness
651 people liked it

"Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: books, children
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"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home."
— Anna Quindlen (How Reading Changed My Life)

tags: books, journey, reading, travel
655 people liked it

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

tags: friendship
2,327 people liked it

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
— Edmund Burke

tags: evil
615 people liked it

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: happiness
1,355 people liked it

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

tags: books, library, reading
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"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
— Maya Angelou

tags: angelou, maya
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"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
— Helen Keller

tags: inspirational
2,180 people liked it

"She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain."
— Louisa May Alcott (Work: A Story of Experience)

tags: books
837 people liked it

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books"
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: books, learning, love, serenity
566 people liked it

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."
— Gustave Flaubert

tags: books, inspirational, life, reading
926 people liked it

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."
— Charles W. Eliot

tags: books, friends, reading, teachers
683 people liked it

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: music
577 people liked it

"A house without books is like a room without windows."
— Horace Mann

tags: books, house, windows
540 people liked it

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been."
— Mark Twain

tags: age
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"The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones."
— Joseph Joubert

tags: books, reading
390 people liked it

"A book is a gift you can open again and again."
— Garrison Keillor

tags: books
148 people liked it

"Music is stored in our long-term memory. When we learn something through music, we tend to remember it longer and believe it more deeply. Dr. Joyce Brothers"
— Dr. Joyce Brothers

tags: learning, music
7 people liked it

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent"
— Victor Hugo

tags: literature, music, poetry
586 people liked it

"The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.' "
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

tags: books, reading
13 people liked it

"Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn."
— Greek Proverb

tags: knowledge, learning
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"Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society."
— Confucius

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"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: knowledge
20 people liked it

"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."
— Marion C. Garretty

tags: music
20 people liked it

"How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?"
— Jane Swan

tags: music
32 people liked it

"Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood."
— Pablo Casals

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"Where words leave off, music begins."
— Heinrich Heine

tags: music
48 people liked it

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: life
55 people liked it

"That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away."
— Hippocrates

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"The control center of your life is your attitude."
— Norman Cousins

tags: atttitude
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"Music is the divine way to tell beautifull, poetic things to the heart."
— Pablo Casals

tags: music
18 people liked it

"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."
— John Wooden

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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
— Aristotle

tags: habit, inspirational, knowledge
387 people liked it

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom
9,114 people liked it

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."
— Confucius

tags: wisdom
522 people liked it

"The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back."
— Abigail Van Buren

tags: character, life, wisdom
371 people liked it

"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!"
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: religion
153 people liked it

"On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: principle, style
115 people liked it

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