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And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.
“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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“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
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“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
“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
“There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.”
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John’s 2025 Year in Books
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