"Books delight us when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us."

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Source : Richard De Bury (2006). “The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of R”, p.94, Cosimo, Inc.

Richard de Bury

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“I went to a Katy Perry concert, and I experienced pure bliss for the first time in my life.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.”
“Because in a split second, it's gone.”
“Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.”
“Sometimes it can feel like there are a billion people on my shoulders.”
“I experience God as the power of love.”
“Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. America developed its mettle at the muddy gaps of the Cumberlands, in the swift rapids of its rivers, on the limitless reaches of its western plains, in the silent vastness of primeval forests, and in the blizzard-ridden passes of the Rockies and Coast ranges.”
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”

Source : William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.317

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