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And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.
“There are degrees of seriousness," replied Syme. "I have never doubted that you were perfectly sincere in this sense, that you thought what you said well worth saying, that you thought a paradox might wake men up to a neglected truth.”
― The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
― The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
“There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.”
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“This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.”
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“I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than the extent of my power or possessions.”
― Plutarch's Lives
― Plutarch's Lives
“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
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John’s 2025 Year in Books
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4,967 books
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158 books
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455 books
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1,379 books
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298 friends
285 books
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