Books provide guidance in youth and comfort in age, offering

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Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from becoming a burden to ourselves. They help us to forget the crossness of men and things, compose our cares and our passions, and lay our disappointments asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

— Jeremy Collier

Jeremy Collier

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Books provide guidance in youth and comfort in age, offering escape from life's difficulties and fostering personal growth through connection with great minds.

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Adults

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Reflective · Encouraging

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under a minute · 71 words

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Wisdom Learning Solitude Books

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