The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

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The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

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The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

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If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

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A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

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You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

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There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.

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We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.

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The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

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In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

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