Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
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To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.Charles Caleb Colton
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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Most men know what they hate, few know what they love.
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If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
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He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
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