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Category Archives: “Quotation Marks”

“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir…mighty scarce.” Mark Twain

Quotation of the Week

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“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Quotation of the Week

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“Books are humanity in print.” Barbara Tuchman

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“Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.” Oscar Wilde, The True Function and Value of Criticism

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“Not to know what happened before you were born is to remain forever a child.” Cicero

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“Why is marking a book indespensible to reading it?”

“Why is marking a book indespensible to reading it? First, it keeps you awake — not merely conscious, but wide awake. Second, reading, if it is active, is thinking, and thinking tends to express itself in wordes, spoken or written…Third, writing your reactions down helps you to remember the thoughts of the author…Marking a book […]

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“It is always in season for old men to learn.” Aeschylus, Agamemnon

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“Reading maketh a full man.” Francis Bacon, Of Studies

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“You will be surprised what psychological motivation there is in your having physical possession of the books you plan to read.” Norman Lewis, How to Read Better and Faster

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