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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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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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He fed his spirit with the bread of books. – Edwin Markham

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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. – Italo Calvino

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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. – Alan Bennett

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