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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more o

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

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again. – Arabic Proverb

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Catalogues of imaginary libraries are an obscure but fruitful area of collecting. The tradition of imaginary books, which exist only within other books, goes back at least to Rabelais, who invented a list of book titles for the Abbey of Saint-Victor in Gargantua and Pantagruel (c.1532). – Emi Hastings, “Catalogues of Imaginary Libraries,” 2014

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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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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. – Harold Bloom

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I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget. – William Lyon Phelps

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The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural. – Ruth Benedict

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom. – Charles Horton Cooley

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You should not ask questions without knowledge. – W. Edwards Deming

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I dont listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. Its all quite dramatic and atmospheric. Youd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music – I couldnt sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song. – Amy Winehouse

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