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— John Denham"Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use."
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Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.
— Eric Burns
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It seems to me that I have always wanted to say the same things in my books: that life is one, that mystery is all around us, that yesterday, today and tomorrow are all spread out in the pattern of eternity, together, and that although love may wear many faces in the incomprehensible panorama of time, in the heart that loves it is always the same.
— Robert Nathan
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