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«It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.»
«It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds... In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books.»
«It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?»
«I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands»
Author: Seneca
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Books
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demands, from time to time, needs, occasion, occasioned, on occasion, pages, ready, stick together, stored, stored up, storing, stuck, truths, turned, unpack, unpacking
«It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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Ambition,
Books
| Keywords:
ambition, sentenced, sentences, sentencing, ten
«It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books what other men do not say in whole books»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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Ambition,
Books
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sentences
«It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.»
«I admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally formed in accordance with a vote»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
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Books
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accordance, admit, finally, formed, vote, voted
«I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Books,
Crime
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criminal, inquiry, in the United States, mortified, mortifies, mortify, mortifying, sale, The United States of America, United States of America
«It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Books,
Literature
| Keywords:
Nobel, Nobel prize, prize, thaw, thawed
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