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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does no

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. – Harper Lee

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Folks dont like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. Youre not gonna change any of them by talking right, theyve got to want to learn themselves, and when they dont want to learn theres nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language. – Harper Lee

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I never expected any sort of success with Mockingbird… I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement. – Harper Lee

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As you grow older, youll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and dont you forget it — whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash. – Harper Lee

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Books are immortal sons deifying their sires. – Plato

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There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs. – Henry Ward Beecher

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For friends… do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble. – Francis Bacon

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The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation. – Aharon Appelfeld

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Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard. – Gene Wolfe

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Sobriety is either the love of health, or an incapacity for debauch. – François VI de la Rochefoucault (1613–1680)

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Of the wealth of the world each has as much as they take. – Italian Proverb

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