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Paying tribute to the authors whose words continue to live on

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

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