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Quote by James Bryce
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away f

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

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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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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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He showed that fame may be won and what services be rendered by a plain son of the people unaided by any gifts of fortune. – James Bryce

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Presidents Day
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. – Alan Bennett

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Nothing is more beautiful than a beautiful book. – Joseph Joubert (1754–1824), translated from French by George H. Calvert, 1

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Books

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

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Books

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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy, 1909

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I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service. – John F. Kerry

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His heart and his brain were utterly foreign to all vindictiveness or personal bitterness. He declared himself hotly and strongly against wrong causes, but never against men. – London Spectator

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Presidents Day

You miss 100% of the shots you never take. – Wayne Gretzky

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