Quote by Samuel Butler
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not rea

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. – Samuel Butler

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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. – Samuel Butler

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Death
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. – Samuel Butler

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Art
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it. – Samuel Butler

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Art
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Books are embalmed minds. – Bovee

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Books

In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit? – Aubrey Beardsley

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Books

Child! Do not throw this book about;
Refrain from the unholy pleasure
Of cutting all the pictures out!
Preserve it as your chiefest treasure. – Hilaire Belloc

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Books

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

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Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational. – Hugh Mackay

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Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. – Sarah Bernhardt

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. – Joseph Conrad

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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