The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions. Christopher Dawson Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading. Rufus Choate It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything. Henry Peter Brougham Fine words! I wonder where you stole them. Jonathan Swift
Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 - 1745) The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air. Simms Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged. James Ramsey I quote others only in order the better to express myself. Michel de Montaigne
French essayist (1533 - 1592) He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind. Samuel Johnson
English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784) Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832) The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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