"Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome."

-- William E. Gladstone

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“I firmly believe that none of us in this world have made it until the least among us have made it.”
“A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.”

Source : "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse, November 30, 1936.
“I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.”
“One of the things about living in the shadow of a suicide is that everyone involved is going to have some guilt, is going to wonder, 'What could I have done? What could I have said?'”
“Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing!”

Source : "Yet Do I Marvel" l. 13 (1925)
“Whatever happens on the golf course is OK, because if I put the ball in trouble I know that I have the skills to get it out of trouble and back into play.”
“England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.”

Source : "Famous sayings and their authors". Book by Edward Latham, 1906.
“When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty.”

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