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“The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.”
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“I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.”
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“The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women.”
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“This is the final test of a gentleman: His respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.”
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“But in a private library, you can at any moment converse with Socrates or Shakespeare or Carlyle or Dumas or Dickens or Shaw or Barrie or Galsworthy. And there is no doubt that in these books you see these men at their best. They wrote for you. They "laid themselves out," they did their ultimate best to entertain you, to make a favorable impression. You are necessary to them as an audience is to an actor; only instead of seeing them masked, you look into their innermost heart of heart.”
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“Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world.”
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“If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.”
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“I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget.”
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“This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.”
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“Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.
William Lyon Phelps”
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“A knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without the Bible.”
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“The latest edition of a work of science is the most valuable; of literature, the earliest.”
― The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century
― The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century
