I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize, not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years, the way the world thinks about economic problems.
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The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books.
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I would really like to slow down the speed of reading with continual punctuation marks. For I would like to be read slowly. (As I myself read.)
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Writing has been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: "This is a book about Alentejo".
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I don't go by the rule book. I lead from the heart, not the head.
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The Good Book: one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.
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Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
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In London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs; all which reduced to writing would entirely confound orthography.
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