Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

Author: Abraham Lincoln

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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

The things I want to know are in books, my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

The biggest seller is cookbooks, and the second is diet books – how not to eat what you’ve just learned how to cook.

Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.