We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.

Quote by Edith Lovejoy Pierce

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We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words...

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words...

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words...

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words...

Certain opuscules, denominated 'Christmas Books,' with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration,...

Certain opuscules, denominated 'Christmas Books,' with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration,...

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody....

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody....

The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible)...

The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible)...

People buy books to own knowledge and have others see them as people of knowledge.

People buy books to own knowledge and have others see them as people of knowledge.

I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to...

I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to...

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away...

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away...

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down...

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down...

I cannot live without books.

I cannot live without books.

Due attention to the inside of books, and due contempt for the outside, is the...

Due attention to the inside of books, and due contempt for the outside, is the...

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon...

Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon...

He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books.

He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books.

It's more fun writing bad books than reading good ones.

It's more fun writing bad books than reading good ones.

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not...

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not...

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern,...

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern,...

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from...

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from...

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he...

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he...

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own...

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own...

Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right.

Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right.

Happiness is too many things these days for anyone lo wish il on anyone lightly....

Happiness is too many things these days for anyone lo wish il on anyone lightly....

For last years words belong to last years language and next years words await another...

For last years words belong to last years language and next years words await another...

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying. And this same flower...

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying. And this same flower...