When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.Christopher Morley
When you give someone a book, you dont give him just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the possibility of a whole new life.
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Prophets were twice stoned - first in anger then, after their death, with a handsome slab in the graveyard.
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We've had bad luck with children they've all grown up.
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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
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A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
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