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"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn." Joseph Addison

"I never deliver a theory without all the fact at my disposal." Sherlock Holmes

"I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in my by the fairy tale, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts." G.K. Chesterton

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it." J.M. Barrie