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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

Persist – don’t take no for an answer. If you’re happy to sit at your desk and not take any risk, you’ll be sitting at your desk for the next 20 years.

My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.