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"If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. It is but a small matter whether you read with anyone or not. I did not read with anyone. Get t…"

"If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it."

"There already are 20,000 federal gun laws and regulations on the books. If those laws haven't made America safe by now, why should we think 20,001 laws will suffice? We shouldn't. Instead, we need to …"

"He showed me his fantastic library first, and that helped me warm to him a little. A guy with a room like that in his house couldn’t be all bad."

"Dickinson on Poets.org Biography, related essays, and reading guides, from the Academy of American Poets"

"Books, words, were my most treasured escape. I lived inside stories, I breathed them. I felt like they made me more human, or a better human…"

"There are those people who are acting irresponsibly … and spreading their gospel of fear and hate and not doing anything to help the ordinary people put bread on their table for their families."

"Ben Bova at the Internet Book List"

"The Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum"

"Museum-Library of Nikolai Fyodorov"

"Rousseau texts in French"

"That's left as an exercise for the reader."

"I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine."

"Flaubert's works: text, concordances and frequency list at IntraText Digital Library"

"Tolstoy at Great Books Online"

"Tunneling : A Resource for Readers of William H. Gass"

"Open Library: works by de Botton"

"Hermione always yawned at the mention of Socialism, and refused even to read Antichrist. 'Don't talk to me about the lower classes,' she used to say. 'I hate them. They smell.' And Ravelston adored he…"

"Now, then, what'd you like to be first? Prime Minister? Oh, no — I've made that deal already."

"Electronic text of Cowper's "Odyssey" translation at bibliomania.com."