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The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. – James Bryce

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There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed in original sin, and were resolved to leave open for transgressors no door which they could possibly shut. – James Bryce

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Sin
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Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. – James Bryce

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Patriotism
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Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existance. – James Bryce

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Medicine
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Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge — they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely. – Vissarion Belinsky

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Books

Books are embalmed minds. – Bovee

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Books

Encourage and pursue an inclination to reading early in life; it is laying up a treasure for the latter part of it… – Countess Dowager of Carlisle, Thoughts in the Form of Maxims addressed to Young

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Books

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. – Francis Bacon

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Books

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One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot. – Francis H. Bradley

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The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits. – Dick Wolf

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What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose. – Margaret Thatcher

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To weep is to make less the depth of grief. – William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth

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