Holbrook Jackson Quotes

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• Happiness is a form of courage.

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  Motivational, Happiness, Happy

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• Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

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  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?

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  Funny, Mistake, Ignorance

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• Genius is initiative on fire.

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  Fire, Genius, Initiative

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• Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

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  Men, Self, Sorrow

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• Originality is only variation.

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  Variation, Originality

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• Your library is your portrait.

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  Writing, Library, Portraits

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• There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.

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  Class, Two, Society

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• Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

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  Habit, Undoing

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• Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

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• Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and how to die; they dispel melancholy by their mirth, and amuse by their wit; they prepare the soul to suffer everything and desire nothing; they introduce us to ourselves.

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  Book, Jealous, Soul

  Holbrook Jackson (1950). “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, p.85, University of Illinois Press

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• The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.

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  Men, Revolution, Revolt

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• Great books conserve time.

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  Book, Writing, Great Book

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• History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.

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  Book, Obscenity, Prove

  Holbrook Jackson (1932). “The Fear of Books”, p.34, University of Illinois Press

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• Be contented, when you have got all you want.

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  Want

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• Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

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  Scholarship, Pedantry

  'Anatomy of Bibliomania' (1930) vol. 1, p. 150

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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.

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  Art, Reading, Night

  Holbrook Jackson (1950). “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, p.232, University of Illinois Press

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• The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary.

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  Night Time, Appointments

  Holbrook Jackson (1950). “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, p.232, University of Illinois Press

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• People who want to be amused have lost the art of living.

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  Art, People, Want

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• Love is the most subtle form of self-interest.

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  Love, Self, Subtle

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• Sacrifice is a form of bargaining.

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  Sacrifice, Form, Bargaining

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• No man is ever old enough to know better.

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  Men, Age, 30th Birthday

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• The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.

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  Real, Blind, Great Men

  Holbrook Jackson (1912). “All Manner of Folk: Interpretations and Studies”, p.31, Ardent Media

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• Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.

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  Book, Reading, Exercise

  Holbrook Jackson (1950). “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, p.315, University of Illinois Press

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• Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.

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  Children, Hate, Book

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