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«Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.»
Author: Beverley Nichols
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Marriage
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Book of, chapter, chapters, first book, prose, remaining
«Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.»
Author: Edmond and Jules De Goncourt
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absence, Absences, Begin, book, exists, first book, half, has-been, imagine, incomplete, incompleteness, lack, lost, parted, The Other Half, volumes
«The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one»
«All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned--the biggest word of all--look.»
«Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.»
Author: Arthur Helps
(Historian, Novelist)
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Men
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ape, ceased, first book, vanquish, vanquished, vanquishes
«Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.»
«Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
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bedside, classroom, classrooms, compare, conceptions, control room, disease, first book, lecture, lectured, lecture room, lecturing, medicine, the book
«If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it»
«Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, /where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!»
«Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Books
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first book, may not
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