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I find television very educating

  I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. - Groucho Marx Our thoughts are free. - Cicero How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. - Henry David Thoreau Never read a book through merely because you have begun it. - John Witherspoon Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. - Sir Francis Bacon Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Sir Richard Steele I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles De Gaulle Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election. - Will Rogers READ MORE

Suppose you were an idiot

  Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. - Mark Twain A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. - G. K. Chesterton Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions. - Antoinette Brown Blackwell Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once. - Tallulah Bankhead You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. - Plato Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. - Oscar Wilde To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal. - Peter Ustinov They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. - Sir Francis Bacon I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. - John D. Rockefeller Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. - Samuel Goldwyn READ M...

When a man says...

  Otto von Bismarck When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice. --Otto von Bismarck Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. --Aristotle Be sincere; be brief; be seated. --Franklin D. Roosevelt Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. --Sir Francis Bacon What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? --Henry David Thoreau There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. --James Thurber The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled, the more I gain. --Susan B. Anthony Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. --Samuel Johnson I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. --Mark Twain Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a m...