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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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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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Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. 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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Patriot Day
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Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows. – James Bryce

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Mistakes
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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Books

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

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Books

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. – William Hazlitt

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Books

Titles of Books.—Decoys to catch purchasers. – Paul Chatfield

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Books

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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity. – Barbara Boxer

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There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself. – Roscoe Snowden

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Though he slay me, I shall yet trust Him. – Bible

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