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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read a

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. – Alan Bennett

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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else. – Alan Bennett

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The book borrower…proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures…as by his failure to read these books. – Walter Benjamin

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I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command. – Francesco Petrarch

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What the candystore was to other kids, the bookstore was to me. The library was my vacation. – Terri Guillemets, “Young bookworm,” 1998

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All literature is political. – LeVar Burton

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Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know. – Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Parish Priest

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Im not sure about the selling part, but Ive always found that the things Ive worn on tour have moved over to what people wear every day. Sometimes the things I wore in the beginning before I had money were things I put together. – Steven Tyler

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The talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female. – Henry Tilney

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Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House. – Louise Slaughter

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