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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house,

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. – Thomas Jefferson

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A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written. – Thomas Jefferson

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Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. – Groucho Marx

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How we long to remove the clutter from our lives not realizing that the clutter is our lives. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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I ask of life to shine meaning in everyone who is searching. – Aurora Hernandez

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