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“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
― Christopher Morley, Pipefuls

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain