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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Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame. – 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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No doubt most of you think biography dull reading. You would much rather sit down with a good story. But have you ever thought what a story is? It is nothing but a bit of make-believe biography. – Burton E. Stevenson, A Guide to Biography for Young Readers: American — Me

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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. – Anatole France

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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. – Logan Pearsall Smith, Trivia, 1917

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When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before. – Clifton Fadiman

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We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world — mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt. – R. D. Laing

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