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It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents. ↗

— William Osler

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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. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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The contents of the massive banks behind these successive revetments makes it quite clear that the material was derived from the incorporation of earlier occupation levels. ↗

— Kathleen Kenyon

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When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents. ↗

— Allan Sherman

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Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo. ↗

— Arthur Smith

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You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't change that. ↗

— Charles Baxter

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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. ↗

— Salvador Dali

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A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion. ↗

— William Safire

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