I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.
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The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy The books that people talk about we never can recall And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.Carolyn Wells
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
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Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.
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Every dogma must have its day.
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We should live and learn but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.
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It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.
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