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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things f

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. – Samuel Johnson

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Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man. – Samuel Johnson

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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. – Samuel Johnson

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All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. – Samuel Butler

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Lists are the butterfly nets that catch my fleeting thoughts… – Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com [And a resounding INFJ-hallel

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You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. – G.K. Chesterton

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Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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