Holbrook Jackson
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"George Holbrook Jackson" was a British journalist, writer and publisher. He was recognised as one of the leading bibliophiles of his time.

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Your library is your portrait.

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Genius is initiative on fire.

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A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with a sort of greedy enjoyment, as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was saturated with the bouquet of silence. -Holbrook Jackson
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No man is ever old enough to know better.

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

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Intuition is reason in a hurry. -Holbrook Jackson
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Be contented when you have got all you want.

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As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject it.

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Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice. -Holbrook Jackson
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Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.

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