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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read. – G.K. Chesterton

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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. – G.K. Chesterton

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A stiff apology is a second insult…. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. – G.K. Chesterton

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Apology
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Classics are not classics because hoary with age — they are the steel balls which have worn down mountains but remained unchanged in the mill of time. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. – Edmund Burke

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The mere brute pleasure of reading — the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. – Lord Chesterfield

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I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things. – George Robert Gissing

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