Books . . . are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
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Very dangerous things, theories.
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There is perhaps one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job if she is a woman, we say she is afreak.
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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
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Trouble shared is trouble halved.
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If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
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