Quotes 81 till 100 of 1030.
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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
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A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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A lot of American guys wear really wide legged jeans and square shoes. Then they come to Sweden and think my friends are gay because they're wearing 'really tight jeans'. It's called 'fitted!'
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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.
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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.
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A man with few friends is only halfdeveloped; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed.
Source: Youth and life (1913) -
A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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A movie grants a visa. A book makes you a citizen.
Source: Release the Bats: Writing Your Way Out Of It -
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
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A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
― St. Francis de Sales
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A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
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A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, ''Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?'' holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. ''Yet,'' added he, ''none of you can tell where it pinches me.
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
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