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• Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death.
  Nobody ever thought himself to death. -- Gilbert Highe...
• Heavy the sorrow that bows the head When love is alive and hope is dead. -- W. S. Gilbe
• Books are not men and yet they stay alive. -- Stephen Vincent Bene
• You have entered a very richly decorated chamber, obviously the king's.
  king's. Great chests and closets contain but a fraction of his robes....
• Reading Habits: Omnivorous, but usually includes lots of science and science fiction.
  The typical hacker household might subscribe to "Analog", "Scientific American", "Co-Evolution Quarterly", and "Smithsonian"....
• Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.
  -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- The Borough, Letter xxiv, School...
• Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so.
  But there are others who will lie and scheme and steal to get books as wildly and unconscionably as the dope-taker in pursuit of his drug....
• I know you all have very innocent minds, but occasionally a word should be allowed to wander through before reaching the paper.
• Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today?