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Holbrook Jackson
English
Writer
About the author
Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
Holbrook Jackson,
English
Writer
#Will
#Habits
The end of reading is not more books but more life.
Holbrook Jackson,
English
Writer
#Life
#End
#Books
#Reading
Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
Holbrook Jackson,
English
Writer
#Happiness
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.
Holbrook Jackson,
English
Writer
#Time
#Art
#Day
#Reading
#Night
#Illness
#Sorrow
#Health
#Joy
The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.
Holbrook Jackson,
English
Writer
#Poor
Your library is your portrait.
Holbrook Jackson,
English
Writer
Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.
Holbrook Jackson,
English
Writer
#Right
#May
#Fools
Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.
Holbrook Jackson,
English
Writer
#Patience
#Cowardice
#Limits
No man is ever old enough to know better.
Holbrook Jackson,
English
Writer
#Man
#Old
Genius is initiative on fire.
Holbrook Jackson,
English
Writer
#Fire
#Genius
A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.
Holbrook Jackson,
English
Writer
#Children
#Mother
Intuition is reason in a hurry.
Holbrook Jackson,
English
Writer
#Reason
#Intuition