"He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book."

-- Benjamin Franklin

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“I drive my own horses in a race. And I always have.”
“He understood that the ghost existed first and foremost within his own head. That maybe ghosts always haunted minds, not places. If he wanted to take a shot at it, heâ€™d have to turn the barrel against his own temple.”
“Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treausre of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.”
“And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.”
“There is no such thing in the Lord's eyes as something called same-gender marriage.”
“When your friends have done right by you, you do right by them.”
“Study is the child of silence and mystery.”
“Come sit with me! Let us drink the holy wine of happiness.”

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