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| #6474 |   | I dote on his very absence. 		-- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"
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| #6475 |   | I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamt that I was reading on, so I woke up from sheer boredom.
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| #6476 |   | I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. 		-- Mark Twain
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| #6477 |   | I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. 		-- Mark Twain, "The Innocents Abroad"
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| #6478 |   | I reverently believe that the maker who made us all  makes everything in New England, but the weather.  I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather-clerks factory who experiment and learn how, in New England, for board and clothes, and then are promoted to make weather for countries that require a good article, and will take their custom elsewhere if they don't get it. 		-- Mark Twain
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| #6479 |   | I think we are in Rats' Alley where the dead men lost their bones. 		-- T.S. Eliot
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| #6480 |   | I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know. 		-- Mark Twain
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| #6481 |   | I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.  I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.  The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.  I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.  Oh, tell me that I may sponge away the writing on this stone! 		-- Charles Dickens
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| #6482 |   | "I wonder", he said to himself, "what's in a book while it's closed.  Oh, I  know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the same, something must  be happening, because as soon as I open it, there's a whole story with people  I don't know yet and all kinds of adventures and battles." 		-- Bastian B. Bux
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| #6483 |   | I'll burn my books. 		-- Christopher Marlowe
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