I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
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The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.
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That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.
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It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.
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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.
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