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• It has always been true that in the United States the people who ought to read books write them.
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• It is best to hope only for things possible and probable
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• Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ix, Line 633...
• He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Lycidas, Line 10...
• Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.
  -- Montaigne, "Apology for Raymond Sebonde...
• The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
  "I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it....
• He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be
  and he who studies men will know how they are....