Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

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When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

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A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

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I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.

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Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

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Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book. ― Jim Rohn

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Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter's father ending up in one of Mrs. McGregor's pies. I also hid the book of 'Grimm Fairy Tales.' They're just too grim for my grandkids. Reality will come soon enough. - Regina Brett

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As a day well spent makes sleep seem pleasant, so a life well employed makes death pleasant. A life well spent is long. ― Leonardo da Vinci

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From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it. ― Tony Hillerman

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The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night. ― F. Scott Fitzgerald

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