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16 Oct 2006, 6:36 pm

"I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage."
- Charles De Secondat (1689 - 1755)

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"The cordial quality of pear or plum
Rises as gladly in the single tree
As in the whole orchards resonant with bees."
- Emerson

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17 Oct 2006, 5:32 am

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers."
- Charles W. Eliot (1834 - 1926)

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"The cordial quality of pear or plum
Rises as gladly in the single tree
As in the whole orchards resonant with bees."
- Emerson

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17 Oct 2006, 6:34 pm

"There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love."
- Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)

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"The cordial quality of pear or plum
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As in the whole orchards resonant with bees."
- Emerson

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17 Oct 2006, 7:25 pm

If the believers keep believing then dreamers will keep dreaming...that won't get a whole lot done.(this would not get out of my head all day! ahh...it's gone)

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17 Oct 2006, 7:26 pm

"Garlic Bless America"
- TheMachine1

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You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

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17 Oct 2006, 7:33 pm

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), (Attributed)

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"The cordial quality of pear or plum
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As in the whole orchards resonant with bees."
- Emerson

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18 Oct 2006, 5:08 am

"It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead."
- Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958)

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"The cordial quality of pear or plum
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As in the whole orchards resonant with bees."
- Emerson

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18 Oct 2006, 6:49 pm

"Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development."
- Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957)

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"The cordial quality of pear or plum
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As in the whole orchards resonant with bees."
- Emerson

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18 Oct 2006, 6:55 pm

"I take little naps while you're on hold."
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18 Oct 2006, 7:01 pm

"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)

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"The cordial quality of pear or plum
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As in the whole orchards resonant with bees."
- Emerson

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19 Oct 2006, 5:18 am

"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book..."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)

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"The cordial quality of pear or plum
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As in the whole orchards resonant with bees."
- Emerson

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20 Oct 2006, 5:14 am

"My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence."
- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)

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"The cordial quality of pear or plum
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As in the whole orchards resonant with bees."
- Emerson

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20 Oct 2006, 6:12 pm

"Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them."
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)

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"The cordial quality of pear or plum
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As in the whole orchards resonant with bees."
- Emerson

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20 Oct 2006, 7:20 pm

"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."
- Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)

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"The cordial quality of pear or plum
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As in the whole orchards resonant with bees."
- Emerson

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20 Oct 2006, 8:10 pm

"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum." Rowdy Roddy Piper, They Live

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20 Oct 2006, 8:18 pm

"Do you ever shoot women and children"

"Sometimes"

"How could you shoot innocent women and children"

"It's easy, you just don't lead them as much"

From the movie- Full Metal Jacket

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