“The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything”
Walter Bagehot
“Mary, there may be bad people on Earth who do bad things. But when I hear about all that, I always think about the good things that good people do. And Judy Garland was a very nice woman who did very nice things in her life.”
A.J. Chilson
“For people who like that kind of a book that is the kind of book they will like”
Abraham Lincoln
“The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.”
“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
Oscar Wilde
“A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.”
Carl Van Doren
“A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.”
Thomas Jefferson
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