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That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.

A man of one book.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit.

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

The less routine the more life.

The richest minds need not large libraries.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength not my weakness.

The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.

Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.

One's outlook is a part of his virtue.

Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.

Oh, the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad.

Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they are shrewd, And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude; But the shrewdness of their shrewdness and the rudeness of their rudeness, Are as nothing to their goodness when they're good.