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A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug. - George

A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug. – George Borrow

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If you must commit suicide… always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of. – George Borrow

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

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A dirty book is rarely dusty. – Author unknown

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A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with “a sort of greedy enjoyment,” as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was “saturated with the bouquet of silence.” – Holbrook Jackson

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A book is to me like a hat or coat — a very uncomfortable thing until the newness has been worn off. – Charles B. Fairbanks

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Our blight is ideologies — they are the long-expected Antichrist! – Carl Gustav Jung

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It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible. – Victor de LaPrade

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Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace. – Nhat Hanh

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Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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