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 | "The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian
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Found in the topic Wit.
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| "Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and
unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who will
lie and scheme and steal to get books as wildly and unconscionably as the
dope-taker in pursuit of his drug. They may not want the books to read
immediately, or at all; they want them to possess, to range on their
shelves, to have at command. They want books as a Turk is thought to want
concubines ? not to be hastily deflowered, but to be kept at their
master"s call, and enjoyed more often in thought than in reality." | |
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Found in the topic Book.
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| "Fanaticism is ... overcompensation for doubt." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really
loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read a book
with great difficulty, moving their lips as they puzzle out each syllable,
when someone tells them that the book is unfit to read." | |
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Found in the topic Censorship.
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| "The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can"t afford a
yes man." | |
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Found in the topic Dog.
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| "Female beauty in an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be
received too often; I am no sure at all that the neglect of it does not
constitute a sin of some kind." | |
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Found in the topic Beauty.
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| "Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground ? not a
flying carpet to set you free from probability." | |
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Found in the topic Imagination.
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| "Happiness is always a byproduct. It is probably a matter of
temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not
something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had
better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from
your own brand of unhappiness." | |
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Found in the topic Happiness.
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| "All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks
for cabbages." | |
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Found in the topic Children.
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| "Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of
Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to
work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I
like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems,
worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and
a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of
order; shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new
position." | |
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Found in the topic Mind.
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| "The love of truth lies at the root of much humor." | |
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Found in the topic Humor.
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| "If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with
friends in government and every walk of public life." | |
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Found in the topic Stupidity.
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