"A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

John Hodgman

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Antiques Quotes

“How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.”
“We have not yet realized that the Indian and his culture were fundamental to the growth of Canadian institutions.”

Source : Harold Innis (2017). “The Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic History”, p.318, University of Toronto Press
“Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, with bitter tiding laden, shall summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden! We are but older children, dear, who fret to find our bedtime near.”
“It's not like I'm looking to describe something that's only true of my own circumstances. It's beyond. It's way inside, you know. It's reaching inside to something that you have in common with many.”
“To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.”
“Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.”
“The position that God promised the church is to influence the society. We are to govern the attitude and the conduct and the motivation of the human race.”
“The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups, it is unbearable to them that President Barack Obama should exist.”

Source : "Post Floor Speech Interview With Sen. Whitehouse". www.washingtontimes.com. December 21, 2009.

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