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The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.

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Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

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One can always tell it's summer when one sees school teachers hanging about the streets idly, looking like cannibals during a shortage of missionaries.

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There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive

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Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

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