"Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either."

Beecher, Henry Ward on Laughter
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"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Conformity
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"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."

Kennedy, John F. on Conformity
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"It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed."

Einstein, Albert on Conformity
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"Conform and be dull."

Doble, J. Frank on Conformity
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"The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity."

Anthony, Dr. Robert on Conformity
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"Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window."

Faulkner, William on Books - Reading
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"When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes."

Erasmus, Desiderius on Books - Reading
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"Never judge a book by its movie."

Eagan, J. W. on Books - Reading
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"There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing."

Disraeli, Isaac on Books - Reading
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"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life."

Disney, Walt on Books - Reading
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"The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions."

Dawson, Christopher on Books - Reading
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"Read in order to live."

Flaubert, Gustave on Books - Reading
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"My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India."

Gibbon, Edward on Books - Reading
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"I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things."

Gissing, George Robert on Books - Reading
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"Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more."

Harington, John on Books - Reading
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"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."

Hugo, Victor on Books - Reading
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"I cannot live without books."

Jefferson, Thomas on Books - Reading
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"The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere."

Schulz, Charles M. on Sincerity
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"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."

Schulz, Charles M. on Worry
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"The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Adventure
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"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

Cicero, Marcus T. on Books - Reading
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"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."

Brodsky, Joseph on Books - Reading
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"There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!"

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on Autumn
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"O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather."

Jackson, Helen Hunt on Autumn
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"There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t."

Trogdon, William on Adventure
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"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health."

Jung, Carl on Adventure
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"And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description."

Byron, Lord on Adventure
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"When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more."

Griffith-Joyner, Florence on Opinions
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"Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality."

Brown, Les on Opinions
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"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."

Blake, William on Opinions
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"Fortune befriends the bold."

Dryden, John on Boldness
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"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take -- choose the bolder."

Slim, William Joseph on Boldness
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"Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends."

Adams, Dawn on Books - Reading
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"All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality -- the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."

Benson, Arthur Christopher on Books - Reading
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"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"

Beecher, Henry Ward on Books - Reading
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"Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear."

Barrett, E.S. on Books - Reading
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"To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry."

Bachelard, Gaston on Books - Reading
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"Beware of the person of one book."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on Books - Reading
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"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on Books - Reading
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