The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.

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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.

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Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

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Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

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As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

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It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.

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It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.

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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.

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