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“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”

Walter Bagehot

“Libraries are not made, they grow.”

Augustine Birrell (1850-1933)

“I believe in words; I believe that words are little gods; I believe that books are bibles.”

Marcel Pomerlo

“The first draft of anything is shit.”

Ernest Hemingway

Nietzsche on Freedom: “First principle: one must need strength, otherwise one will never have it.”

Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“The original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.”

François René de Chateubriand (1768-1848)

“Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.”

Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923)

“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood.”

Daniel Hudson Burnham (1846-1912)

“It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine; I am in it, as the butterfly in the light-laden air. Nothing has to come; it is now. Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.”

Richard Jeffries (1848-1887)

“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)