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“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
― Winston Churchill

“Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
― George Washington

“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Things remained unsaid will remain unheard”
― T.C. Swennes

“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

“The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.”
― Alice Morse Earle

“Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home--they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?