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Quote by Francis Bacon
For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends,

For friends… do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble. – Francis Bacon

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Wives are young mens mistresses, companions for middle age, and old mens nurses. – Francis Bacon

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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts. – Francis Bacon

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Reading means borrowing. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Aphorisms

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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. – Jessamyn West

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From my point of view, a book is a literary prescription put up for the benefit of someone who needs it. – S.M. Crothers

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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it. – Roland Barthes

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There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right. – Sir Winston Churchill

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In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency – money – the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished. – James Buchan

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