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Don't let the bastards grind you down.

You fit into melike a hook into an eyea fish hookan open eye

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.