"The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defense."

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Source : John Alfred Langford (1880). “The Praise of Books as Said and Sung by English Authors: Selected with a Preliminary Essay on Books”

John Alfred Langford

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“All ***** is to a degree sadistic - inevitably.”
“When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'”

Source : Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”
“If you were lost for America, there is nobody who could keep the army and the revolution [going] for six months.”
“Surely there must be a better gift God could have given us than life?”
“As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.”
“I feel like it's my responsibility to be the greatest I can be. If I go out there and start making terrible music, I don't expect people to like me. If I'm making great music and there's no reason for people to not like me, that's when it's going to make me upset. People just need to take a chance and listen.”
“If there is anything material and we're not reporting it, we'll be breaking the law. We don't break the law.”
“My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity.”

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