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"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business." »Abraham Lincoln
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"A closed mind is like a closed book just a block of wood." »Chinese Proverb
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"Don't open a shop unless you know how to smile." »Jewish Proverb
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"Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull." »H. L. Mencken
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"The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop." »Edwin Conklin
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"It is a kind of policy in these days to prefix a fantastical title to a book which is to be sold; for as larks come down to a day-net, many vain readers will tarry and stand gazing, like silly passengers, at an antic picture in a painter?s shop that will not look at a judicious piece." »Burton
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"One of the diseases of this age is the multitude of books. It is a thriftless and a thankless occupation, this writing of books: a man were better to sing in a cobbler?s shop, for his pay is a penny a patch; but a book-writer, if he get sometimes a few commendations from the judicious, he shall be sure to reap a thousand reproaches from the malicious." »Barnaby Rich
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"Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed." »W. C. Fields
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"I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police." »Janina Atkins
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"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief." »Gerry Spence
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"A closed mouth catches no flies." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"A closed mouth gathers no feet." »Anonymous
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"A closed mouth gathers no foot." »Unknown
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"The worst prison would be a closed heart." »Unknown
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"In whatever one does, there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart. With the eye that is closed, one looks within, with the eye that is open, one looks without." »Henri Cartier-Bresson
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"Remember, a closed mouth gathers no foot." »Steve Post
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"If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll get the same kind of feeling and you won't have to pay." »Robert Joseph Bob Dole
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"A great many open minds should be closed for repairs." »Toledo Blade
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"A closed mind is a good thing to lose." »Anonymous
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"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see." »John Lennon, "Strawberry Fields"
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"That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit." »Amos Bronson Alcott, Table Talk
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"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit." »A. Bronson Alcott
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"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." »Mark Twain
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"When one door of happiness closes another opens; but we often look so long at the closed one that we do not see the one which has opened for us." »Helen Keller, Quote of the day book
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"Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science." »Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
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"The wine seems to be very closed-in and seems to have entered a dumb stage. Sort of a Marcel Meursault." »Paul S. Winalski
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"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed." »Albert Einstein
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"Music is an extraordinary locksmith; it is so competent that it can open our soul's door even with closed eyes!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have arrived believe they have nowhere to go. Some not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid." »Dr. Dale E. Turner
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"Beauty is but a flower,Which wrinkles will devourBrightness falls from the airQueens have died young and fairDust hath closed Helen's eye.I am sick, I must dieLord have mercy on us." »Thomas Nash
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