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Johnsons are rare; yet, Boswells are perhaps still rarer. - Thomas

Johnsons are rare; yet, Boswells are perhaps still rarer. – Thomas Carlyle

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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. – Thomas Carlyle

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The highest virtue here may be least in another world. – Khalil Gibran

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I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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