In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
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Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Do right and you will be conspicuous.
At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass.
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.
There is nothing so annoying as to have two people go right on talking when you're interrupting.
A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
