Holbrook Jackson quotes

Your library is your portrait. (Holbrook Jackson)

Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

Holbrook Jackson

Genius is initiative on fire.

Holbrook Jackson

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.

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Intuition is reason in a hurry.

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Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

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Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

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History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.

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Be contented, when you have got all you want.

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No man is ever old enough to know better.

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Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice. (Holbrook Jackson)

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

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A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

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

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Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.

Holbrook Jackson

Holbrook Jackson

Occupation: English Writer
Born: December 31, 1874
Died: June 16, 1948
Quotes count: 16
Wikipedia: Holbrook Jackson

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