I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.

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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

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It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

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All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

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