What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

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In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

This world after all our science and sciences is still a miracle wonderful inscrutable magical and

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle, wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more to whosoever will think of it.

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