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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. – Joseph Addison

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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. – Joseph Addison

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The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. – Joseph Addison

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

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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. – W. H. Auden

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Beware of the person of one book. – Thomas Aquinas

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A wicked book cannot repent. – Proverb

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