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The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,’The medicines of the soul.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

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  1. Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
  2. The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
  3. if one of two or more joint wrongdoers has to pay all the damages, he cannot recover contribution from his fellows. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
  4. Science is the topography of ignorance. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
  5. Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
  6. Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
  7. A man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
  8. Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
  9. A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions. ~ – Oliver Wendell Holmes
  10. Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world – and unless we touch others, we’re out of touch with life. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
  11. To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
  12. The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
  13. Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
  14. Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
  15. Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
  16. I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
  17. A goose flies by a chart the Royal Geographic Society could not improve. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
  18. We are very quiet there, but it is the quiet of a storm centre. . – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
  19. I took only one suitcase, and a cosmetics case for medicines but I was worried about books. Solitude is all right with books, awful without. – Martha Gellhorn
  20. Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. – RL Stine
  21. And tell them all about the books you’ve read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That’s an order. You can never read too many books. – PB Kerr
  22. Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work. – Kira Hawke
  23. Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  24. Books were a dependable pleasure. I read more then than I ever was able to read again until now when I am too old to work much and am mostly alone. – Wendell Berry
  25. Yo Mama’s like a library, open to the public. – Oliver Oliver Reed
  26. Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. – Anatole France
  27. If wrappings of cloth can impart respectability, the most respectable persons are the Egyptian mummies, all wrapped in layers and layers of gauze – Kamala Suraiyya Das
  28. I’ve heard the name before: Anubis. An Egyptian name. The name of a god.The god of the dead. – Kate Rooper
  29. Toilet paper unrolled and slitheredthen wrapped around my tummy.That paper tried to roll me upinto an Egyptian mummy. – Melinda K Trotter
  30. When we care about people, we care less about money, and when we care about money, we care less about people. – Margaret Heffernan
  31. What I care about is what I care about. What you care about is what you care about. So let’s add the planet to that list – Sahndra Fon Dufe
  32. Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride. – Garth Nix
  33. All Medicines are poisons, and all poisons should be looked at for medicinal properties. – Pain Pus and Poison
  34. My sister wrote letters to the dead and hid them in her bedroom drawers.I wrote imaginary letters in my head to living. – Renee Ruin
  35. You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three – Michael Connelly
  36. …if your great-great-great-grandfather wanted to read his book after dark, some poor soul had to crawl around in a whale’s head for an afternoon. – Steven Johnson
  37. I could read the great books but the great books don’t interest me. – Charles Bukowski
  38. Manifest of souls;Adventurous soul,Enthusiastic soul, Sound soul,Happy soul,Great soul. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  39. I don’t care about wearing branded clothes or flaunting brands. But I do care about the books that I read and the music that I listen to. – Avijeet Das
  40. Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. – Charles Caleb Colton

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