"A college education shows a man how little other people know."

Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian Author

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"Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience."

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"The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government."

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"No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings."

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"Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive."

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"A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love."

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"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."

Robert Frost, American Poet

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"Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about."

Octavia Butler, American Writer

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"There is creative reading as well as creative writing."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere."

Octavia Butler, American Writer

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"For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time."

Louis L'Amour, American Author

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"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

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"I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate."

Jack London, American Novelist

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"O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."

Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet

Education, Life, Existence, Harmony

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"Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience."

"To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back."

"The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government."

"No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings."

"Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive."

"When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry."

"A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love."

"Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence."

"Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success."

"Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend."

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"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read."

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."

"Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about."

"There is creative reading as well as creative writing."

"Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere."

"For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time."

"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."

"I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate."

"O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught."

"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."