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  • #1
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

  • #2
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #3
    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #4
    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

  • #5
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #6
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #7
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #8
    Joseph Conrad
    “Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
    Joseph Conrad, Chance

  • #9
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #10
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #11
    Albert Einstein
    “I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #12
    Jane Austen
    “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

  • #13
    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    Ray Bradbury

  • #14
    Erasmus
    “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
    Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

  • #15
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #16
    “It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that wins.”
    Arthur G. Lewis, Stub Ends of Thought and Verse

  • #17
    Audrey Hepburn
    “Paris is always a good idea.”
    Audrey Hepburn

  • #18
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
    P.G. Wodehouse

  • #19
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.”
    P.G. Wodehouse , Uneasy Money

  • #20
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof. ”
    P.G. Wodehouse

  • #21
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.”
    P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves!

  • #22
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows. ”
    P.G. Wodehouse

  • #23
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Woman is the unfathomable, incalculable mystery, the problem that we men can never hope to solve.”
    P. G. Wodehouse

  • #24
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Another of these strong silent men. The world is full of us.”
    P.G. Wodehouse

  • #25
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle



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