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Quote by William Hazlitt
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of ou

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. – William Hazlitt

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Comedy naturally wears itself out — destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at. – William Hazlitt

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One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. – A. Bronson Alcott, “Books,” June 1869

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I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments. – Lord Chesterfield

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All literature is political. – LeVar Burton

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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. – E.P. Whipple

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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. – Victor Hugo

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True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. – Milan Kundera

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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing. – John Donne

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The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth. – Marya Mannes, More in Anger, 1958

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