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A True Friend Is One Who Likes You Despite Your Achievements.

If Egotism Means A Terrific Interest In One's Self, Egotism Is Absolutely Essential To Efficient Living.

As A Rule People Don't Collect Books; They Let Books Collect Themselves.

The Second Suggestion Is To Think As Well As To Read. I Know People Who Read And Read, And For All The Good It Does Them They Might Just As Well Cut Bread-and-butter. They Take To Reading As Better Men Take To Drink. They Fly Through The Shires Of Literature On A Motor-car, Their Sole Object Being Motion. They Will Tell You How Many Books They Have Read In A Year. Unless You Give At Least 45 Minutes To Careful, Fatiguing Reflection (it Is An Awful Bore At First) Upon What You Are Reading, Your 90 Minutes Of A Night Are Chiefly Wasted.

No Mind, However Loving, Could Bear To See Plainly Into All The Recess Of Another Mind.