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Be not simply good - be good for something. - Henry David Thoreau

Be not simply good – be good for something. – Henry David Thoreau

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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. – Rene Descartes

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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. – Maya Angelou

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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves. – Lao Tzu

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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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