Holbrook Jackson quotes

Your library is your portrait. (Holbrook Jackson)
Suffer fools gladly; they may be right. View quote
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Genius is initiative on fire. View quote
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The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness. View quote
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Intuition is reason in a hurry. View quote
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Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing. View quote
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Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today. View quote
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History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity. View quote
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Be contented, when you have got all you want. View quote
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No man is ever old enough to know better. View quote
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Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice. (Holbrook Jackson)
The end of reading is not more books but more life. View quote
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A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement. View quote
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The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich. View quote
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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it. View quote
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Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice. View quote
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