Holbrook Jackson Quotes - Page 2

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

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  Love, Self, Subtle

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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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• 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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• Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

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  Suffering, Fool, May

  "Platitudes in the Making". Book by Holbrook Jackson, 1911.

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• The end of reading is not more books but more life.

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  Reading, Book, Literacy

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• We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.

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  Regret, Integrity, Vices

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• Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.

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  Book, Joy, Forever

  Holbrook Jackson (1950). “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, p.646, University of Illinois Press

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• The newest books are those that never grow old.

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  Book, Reading, Grows

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• Intuition is reason in a hurry.

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  Intuition, Reason, Instinct

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• Don't try to convert the elderly person; circumvent him.

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  Elderly, Advice, Trying

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• Forgive everybody but yourself.

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  Advice, Forgiving

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• Your readiest desire is your path to joy... even if it destroys you.

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  Joy, Desire, Path

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• Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.

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  Friendship, God, Dog

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• A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of greedy enjoyment," as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was "saturated with the bouquet of silence."

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  Book, Home, Air

  Holbrook Jackson (1950). “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, p.20, University of Illinois Press

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• As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject it.

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  Ideas, Accepted, Rejects

  'Platitudes in the Making' (1911) p. 13

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• The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.

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  Giving, Rich, Poor

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• Genius is intuition on fire.

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  Fire, Intuition, Genius

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• Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• The better the book the more room for the reader.

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  Book, Rooms, Reader

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