The real purpose

The real purpose
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking
  

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Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.
Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.
True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.
Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
There is a foolish corner in the brain of wisest man.
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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Don'tjudge a book by its cover.
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Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.
A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.