Of all the needs a book has, the chief need is that it be readable.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.
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Velvet and gilding do not make a throne, nor gold and jewels a sceptre. It is a throne because the most exalted one sits there,and a sceptre because the most mighty one wields it.
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