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Quote by Lord Chesterfield
The mere brute pleasure of reading — the sort of pleasure a

The mere brute pleasure of reading — the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. – Lord Chesterfield

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Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one. – Lord Chesterfield

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Humility
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Lord Chesterfield
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In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief. – Lord Chesterfield

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Shame
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I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments. – Lord Chesterfield

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Books

Books are the glass of council to dress ourselves by. – Bulstrode Whitlock

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What the candystore was to other kids, the bookstore was to me. The library was my vacation. – Terri Guillemets, “Young bookworm,” 1998

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Books — the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity. – George Steiner

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