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Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we

Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book. – John Ruskin

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Men dont and cant live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They dont live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions. – John Ruskin

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Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. – John Ruskin

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A good book should leave you… slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. – William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958

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That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. – Amos Bronson Alcott

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When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign — a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they dont want to hear the word mentioned. – Italo Calvino

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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. – Arabic proverb

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The only certain freedoms in departure. – Robert Frost

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Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end. – Jiddhu Krishnamurti

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