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“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
― George Burns

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
― Socrates

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

“I had learnt the satisfaction which comes from hardship and the pleasure which derives from abstinence; the contentment of a full belly; the richness of meat; the taste of clean water; the ecstasy of surrender when the craving of sleep becomes a torment; the warmth of a fire in the chill of dawn.”
― Wilfred Thesiger, Arabian Sands

“Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.”
― Tryon Edwards

“Live to the point of tears.”
― Albert Camus

“Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.”
― Eddie Cantor

“ The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. ”
― George Jessel

“If I were dead and buried And I heard your voice, Beneath the sod My heart of dust Would still rejoice.”
― Dalton Trumbo

“If not now, when? If not you, who?”
― Hillel the Elder

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“I like long walks, especially when they're taken by people who annoy me.”
― Fred Allen