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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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Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something. – Lord Chesterfield

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Health
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Books that have become classics — books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal — always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. – William Hazlitt

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There is no thief worse than a bad book. – Italian Proverb

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To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one. – Chinese Saying

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When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us. – Margery Allingham

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