My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.Samuel Butler
For money has a power above The stars and fate, to manage love.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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I am not now in fortune's power He that is down can fall no lower.
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If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
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