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people, in forming their opinions of others, are usually lazy enough to go by whatever is most obvious or whatever chance remark they happen to hear. So the best policy is to dictate to others the opinion you want them to have of you.

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Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.

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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

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In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

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Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

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Books are humanity in print.

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Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.

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