"I write the books I want to read. I'm interested in seeing what happens with this book in the marketplace."
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"Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and thatto compress it further can only make it more obscure?"
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"The wise are above books."
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"What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion."
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"An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary."
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"Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used."
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"Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know."
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"Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a simple declaration of the divine fact. Bid the invaders take the shoes from off their feet, for God is here within."
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"We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of the invisible world, through a few brains. The arts and institutions of men are created out of thought. The powers that make the capitalist are metaphysical, the force of method and force of will makes trade, and builds towns."
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"We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that is his,--his name, his form, his dress, books, and instruments,--fancy enhances. Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth."
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"Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine."
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"When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long."
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"I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books."
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"We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise."
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"We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages."
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"Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood."
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"I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them."
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"We expect a great man to be a good reader."
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"Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book."
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"Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds."
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