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“Your method was the essence of simplicity: day in and day out you kept learning; you kept squeezing every possible ounce of learning out of every waking moment; you were an eternal question box, for you had a constant and insatiable desire to know and understand.”
― Norman Lewis, Word Power Made Easy

“the keys to accurate thinking. Is it any wonder then that the most successful and intelligent people in this country have the biggest vocabularies? It was not their large vocabularies that made these people successful and intelligent, but their knowledge. Knowledge, however, is gained largely through words.”
― Norman Lewis, Word Power Made Easy and 30 Days to More Powerful Vocabulary

“your vocabulary indicates the alertness and range of your mind. The words you know show the extent of your understanding of what’s going on in the world. The size of your vocabulary varies directly with the degree to which you are growing intellectually.”
― Norman Lewis, Word Power Made Easy

“Philadelphia is the City of Brotherly Love”
― Norman Lewis, Word Power Made Easy

“All normal human beings are born with a powerful urge to learn. Almost all of them lose this urge, even before they have reached maturity. It is only the few … who are so constituted that lack of learning becomes a nuisance. This is perhaps the most insidious of human tragedies.”
― Norman Lewis, Word Power Made Easy: The Complete Handbook for Building a Superior Vocabulary

“words are the instruments by means of which men and women grasp the thoughts of others and with which they do much of their own thinking. They are the tools of thought.”
― Norman Lewis, Word Power Made Easy - The Complete Three-Week Vocabulary Builder

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― Norman Lewis, Word Power Made Easy: The Complete Handbook for Building a Superior Vocabulary