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“A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case if, to the character of a collector, he adds - or tries to add - the qualities of a student who wishes to know the books and the lives of the men who wrote them. The friendships of his life, the phases of his growth, the vagaries of his mind, all are represented.”

Source: Bibliotheca Osleriana: A Catalogue of Books Illustrating the History of Medicine and Science

“I believe that the essence of government lies with unceasing concern for the welfare and dignity and decency and innate integrity of life for every individual. I dont like to say this and wish I didnt have to add these words to make it clear but I willregardless of color, creed, ancestry, sex or age.”

Believe Government Age Lying Individual I Believe Wish Sex Clear Color Integrity Concern Dignity Essence Add Welfare Creeds Innate Decency Ancestry Government Lies

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“I think art has a right — not an obligation — to be difficult if it wishes. And, since people generally go on from this to talk about elitism versus democracy, I would add that genuinely difficult art is truly democratic.”

People Ifs Thinking Art Wish Difficult Democracy Goes On Art Is Add Democratic Obligation Versus Elitism

Author:Geoffrey Hill

“An illustrator in my own mind - and this is not a truth of any kind - is someone who so falls in love with writing that he wishes he had written it, and the closest he can get to is illustrating it. And the next thing you learn, you have to find something unique in this book, which perhaps even the author was not entirely aware of. And that's what you hold on to, and that's what you add to the pictures: a whole Other Story that you believe in, that you think is there.”

Thinking Writing Mind Believe Kind Book Whole Stories Fall Next Wish My Own Written Unique Add Falling In Love Closest Illustrators Illustrating

Author:Maurice Sendak

“The game of discontent has its rules, and he who disregards them cheats. It is not permitted to you to wish to add another's advantages or possessions to your own; you are permitted only to wish to be another.”

Games Wish Advantage Add Possession Cheat Discontent Disregard

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.”

May Wish Reader Add Incidents Wish You I Wish You Would

Book:The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including His Tour to the Hebrides, Correspondence with Mrs. Thrale, &c. With Numerous Additions

Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including His Tour to the Hebrides, Correspondence with Mrs. Thrale, &c. With Numerous Additions

“That is to say, under the old way any time we wish to add to the national wealth we are compelled to add to the national debt. Now, that is what Henry Ford wants to prevent. He thinks it is stupid, and so do I, that for the loan of $30,000,000 of their own money the people of the United States should be compelled to pay $66,000,000 - that is what it amounts to, with interest.”

People Thinking Way Want Should States Wish Interest Wealth United Pay United States Stupid Amount Add Investing Debt Compelled Loan National Debt Old Ways

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“I wish that some way could be found to add up all the staggering costs imposed on millions of ordinary people, just so a relative handful of self-righteous environmental cultists can go around feeling puffed up with themselves.”

People Way Self Feelings Found Wish Millions Cost Ordinary Add Environmental Relative Righteous Ordinary People Handful Self Righteous Staggering

Author:Thomas Sowell

“What one wishes is to be touched by truth and to be able to interpret that truth so that one may use what one is feeling and experiencing, be it despair or joy, in a way that will add meaning to one's life and will hopefully touch others as well.”

Way Wells May Use Feelings Able Joy Wish Despair Add Hopefully Touched Interpreting Moment Of Truth

Author:Michael Jackson