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«Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners»
«The United States has been declared under martial law...All constitutional rights have been suspended. Anyone interfering with the collection of urine samples will be shot. Anyone failing to attend morning school prayer will be shot. The number one enemy of progress is questions. National security is more important than individual rights. Sports broadcasts will proceed as scheduled. Shut up, be happy, obey all orders without question. At last everything is done for you.»
«It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.»
«Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.»
«In the absence of will-power the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.»
«Borrowers of books, those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.»
«Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.»
«I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it.»
«After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.»
«Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.»

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