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“Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.”

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William Shakespeare (1564 - April 23, 1616) was one of the greatest poets of the English Renaissance, renowned for his dramatic works. His plays spanned a variety of genres, including tragedy, comedy, and history, and have had a profound impact on literature worldwide. more

“If pressed to supplement Tweedledee's ostensive definition of logic with a discursive definition of the same subject, I would say that logic is the systematic study of the logical truths. Pressed further, I would say that a sentence is logically true if all sentences with its grammatical structure are true. Pressed further still, I would say to read this book.”

Ifs Stills Book Study Subjects Logic Structure Definitions Sentences Logical Systematic Supplements

Author:Willard Van Orman Quine

“Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.”

Ifs Made Book Ends Helping Built Sentences Domes Arcades

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“Boughs are daily rifled By the gusty thieves, And the book of Nature Getteth short of leaves.”

Book Thieves

Book:Works: Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse, with All Original Illustrations

Source: Works: Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse, with All Original Illustrations

“I hear no one boast, that he hath a knowledge of the Scriptures, but that he owneth a Bible written in golden characters. And tell me then, what profiteth this? The Holy Scriptures were not given to us that we should enclose them in books, but that we should engrave them upon our hearts.”

Should Heart Book Character Given Written Holy Scripture Golden Boast Holy Scriptures Engrave

Author:Saint John Chrysostom

“I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature.”

Thinking Men World Should Book Letters Ambitious Scarce

Book:The Philosophical Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq; Abridged, Methodized, and Disposed Under the General Heads of Physics, Statics, Pneumatics, Natural History, Chymistry, and Medicine. The Whole Illustrated with Notes, Containing the Improvements Made in the Several Parts of Natural and Experimental Knowledge Since His Time. In Three Volumes. By Peter Shaw, M.D.

Source: The Philosophical Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq; Abridged, Methodized, and Disposed Under the General Heads of Physics, Statics, Pneumatics, Natural History, Chymistry, and Medicine. The Whole Illustrated with Notes, Containing the Improvements Made in the Several Parts of Natural and Experimental Knowledge Since His Time. In Three Volumes. By Peter Shaw, M.D.

“Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth's four volume Haiku became especially popular at this time [1950's] because his translations were based on the assumption that the haiku was the poetic expression of Zen. Not surprisingly, his books attracted the attention of the Beat school, most notably writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac, all of whom had a prior interest in Zen.”

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Author:Reginald Horace Blyth

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