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Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.
Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.
Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on read more
Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.
Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.
Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.
Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.
Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he read more
Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.
Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
