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A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wise

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. – Jeremy Collier

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Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. – Jeremy Collier

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That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. – Amos Bronson Alcott

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The naturalistic literature of this country has reached such a state that no family of characters is considered true to life which does not include at least two hypochondriacs, one sadist, and one old man who spills food down the front of his vest. – Robert Benchley

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The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary. – Italo Calvino

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My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. – Thomas Helm

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