"My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve."

-- Joseph Howe

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“I'd have described myself as a Tolkien reader before this, but now I'd describe myself as a Tolkien geek.”
“We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible.”
“Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.”
“The greatest insult came at the marriage ceremony when the minister asked 'who giveth this woman,' and some brother, or father or other man, unblushingly said he did, as though it were entirely a commercial transaction between men.”
“It seems then that it is not the excellence of any two things (or more) in themselves, but those two things as viewed by the light of each other, that makes beauty.”
“Faith is knowing something that no-one else does.”
“Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if we cannot attain all at one leap, we must advance towards it step by step, reasonably content so long as we do actually make some progress in the right direction.”
“A psychopath can tell what you're thinking but what they don't do is feel what you feel. These are people without a conscience.”

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