"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

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"A faithful friend is a strong defense;
and he that hath found him hath found a treasure."

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them and try to follow where they lead."

"Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen;
the more select, the more enjoyable."

"Housekeeping ain't no joke."

"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship."

"Love is a great beautifier."

"Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful
root that we cannot get on without it any more
than we can without potatoes."

"The emerging woman...will be strong-minded,
strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...
strength and beauty must go together."

"There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will
be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty."

"Women have been called queens for a long time,
but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling."

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"Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love."

"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."

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"If we encounter a man of rare intellect we should ask him what books he reads."

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"Easy reading is damn hard writing."

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"Age is a matter of feelings not years."

"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes."

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"I cannot live without books."

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"Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather
and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know."

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"Outside a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
Inside a dog, it's too dark to read."

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"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."

"Have we no wine here?"

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"Friendships are discovered rather than made."

"Human nature is above all things lazy."

"Never give up, for that is just the time and place that the tide will turn."

"The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today."

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"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."

"The man who does not read good books has no
advantage over the man who cannot read them."

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"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well,
if one has not dined well."

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