Famous quotes containing the words bad and/or book:
“If to chaffer and higgle are bad in trade, they are much worse in Love. It demands directness as of an arrow.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Upon looking back from the end of the last chapter and surveying the texture of what has been wrote, it is necessary, that upon this page and the five following, a good quantity of heterogeneous matter be inserted, to keep up that just balance betwixt wisdom and folly, without which a book would not hold together a single year.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
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