Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone. ― Saul Bellow

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Kids who have no interest in books are usually from slob parents who themselves had no interest in books. ― Dr. Seuss

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He filled a shelf with a small army of books and read and read; but none of it made sense. .. They were all subject to various cramping limitations: those of the past were outdated, and those of the present were obsessed with the past.

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Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.― Mark Twain

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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women. ― Booker T. Washington

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I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything. ― Kamala Harris

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When you break through a glass ceiling, you're going to get cut, and it's going to hurt. ― Kamala Harris

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You may be the first to do many things, but make sure you are not the last. ― Kamala Harris

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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. ― Neil Gaiman

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Dearer to me than a host of base truths is the illusion that exalts.

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