To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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The less men think, the more they talk.
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