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People Who Have Read A Good Deal Rarely Make Great Discoveries. I Do Not Say This In Excuse Of Laziness, But Because Invention Presupposes An Extensive Independent Contemplation Of Things.

When A Book And A Head Collide And A Hollow Sound Is Heard, Must It Always Have Come From The Book?

There Are Very Many People Who Read Simply To Prevent Themselves From Thinking.

I Have Never Yet Met Anyone Who Did Not Think It Was An Agreeable Sensation To Cut Tinfoil With Scissors.

Never Trust A Man Who Lays His Hand On His Heart When He Assures You Of Anything.