John Lyly's Quote - Far more seemly were it for thee to have thy study full of books,

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Far more seemly were it for thee to have thy study full of books,

Far more seemly were it for thee to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money. – John Lyly

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. – John Lyly

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The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted. – John Lyly

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Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame. – John Lyly

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There are many persons pretending to have a refined literary taste, who seldom read any books but those which are fashionable… – Charles Lanman, “Thoughts on Literature,” 1840

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Medicine for the soul. – Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes

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Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution — such call I good books. – Henry David Thoreau

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

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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition. – Gertrude Stein

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A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War. – Charles Inglis

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