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Oscar Wilde
“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde
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Mark Twain
“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain
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“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
― Albert Einstein
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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
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