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Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters.

Bill Vaughan

They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
BILL VAUGHAN

Book Depend Give Science Strength Upon
One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
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Conceit Pride Thinking
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
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Boredom Causes Revolution
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
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Anger Animal Men Problem Space
Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
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Details Men Patience
He (God) doesn’t need me, but He desires me.
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Desire Individual Needs
Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.
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Men Mirror Running Water
The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
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Day Disappear Groundhog Prophet
Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then … pick out his brains.
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Grasp Hands Power Ties
People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
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Behaviour Littles People
Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
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Riches Safety Sea
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
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July Patriotic Real
Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
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Baseball Parking Space Umpires
You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
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Frogs Ocean Understanding
Every time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there. It always seemed irrelevant to me: Does a property gain value just because Alfred Hitchcock used to eat breakfast there?
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Doe House Real
In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.
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Age Book Reading Sufficient

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