If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.

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Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

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They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.

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I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.

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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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I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books.

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Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

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Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle. ― Mike Tyson

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White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of hundreds of our ancestors who took part in slave rebellions has been lost in the mists of time, since plantation owners did their best to prevent any written accounts of uprisings. — Huey Newton

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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. ― Immanuel Kant

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