![I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them.... I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-am-a-product-of-endless-books-my-father-bought-all-the-books-he-read-and.jpg)
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father order able
In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he. Denis Diderot
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father lay life
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father heart life-is
I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart.
father men taught
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book far win
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That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.
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You smile with just the mere mention of his name. John Sullivan
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As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man. Antisthenes
men life-is hanging-out
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men religion useless
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men order evil
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