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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Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.
Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.
Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.
All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.
Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.
Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.
Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.