DeWit-Marchant
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The Reader's Collection
A group of cards dedicated to people with a passion for the written word. An appropriate quote is positoned on the inside of each card.
RC 2 Adventures of the Spirit
"The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another that shares the same books." Katherine Mansfield
RC 45 Early Autumn
RC 10 Winter Star Dreaming
RC 48 Summer
RC 18 Summer Memoirs
RC 19 Headed Over the Pass
RC 24 Potentials
RC 26 Night Companions
RC 28 Casting
RC 30 A Thoughtful Life
RC 31 Evenings at Home
RC 33 First Warm Evening
RC 34 Reading the Moon
RC 38 Saturday Morning
RC 42 Love
RC 44 The Familiar
RC 49 Late Afternoon
RC 50 Domesticity
RC 46 Friday Nights
RC 41 Rest
RC 39 Dreams
RC 40 Feast
RC 43 Basic Necessities
RC 49 Late Afternoon
"There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage." Carl van Vechten
"Little minds are interested in the extraordinary, great minds in the commonplace." Elbert Hubbard
"While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living." Cyril Connolly
"Reading makes immigrants of us all - it takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere." Hazel Rochman
"Your life is an expression of all your thoughts." Marcus Aurelius
"Books may well be the only true magic." Alice Hoffman
"Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers." Alfred Lord Tennyson
"A crowd is not company." Francis Bacon
"The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal." Sir Compton Mackenzie
"In the depth of Winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible Summer." Albert Camus
"Night is the mother of thoughts." John Florio (1578)
"Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier." Kathleen Norris
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts." Benjamin Disraeli
RC 51 Forty Minutes
RC 52 Beginning of Summer
RC 53 Early Autumn
RC 54 The End of Winter
RC 55 The Middle of Winter
"No woman was ever ruined by a book." Mayor Jimmy Walker
"Let us read and let us dance--two amusments that will never do any harm to the world." Voltaire
"Literature is my utopia." Helen Keller
"For some must watch, while some must sleep; thus runs the world away." .. .Shakespeare "Hamlet"
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." Jorge Luis Borges
"Curiosity is a lust of the mind." Thomas Hobbes
"What one reads becomes part of what one sees and feels." Ralph Ellison
"Nothing happens unless first a dream." Carl Sandburg
"If you have learned to spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live." Lin Yutang
"There is more to life than increasing its speed." Mohandas K. Gandhi
"How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards." Spanish Proverb
Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age." Christopher Morley
"Very little is needed to make a happy life." Marcus Aurelius
"Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company." Lord Byron
RC 58 Origins
RC 57 Stories II
RC 56 Exchange
"We shrink from change ; yet is there anything that can come into being without it. Marcus Aurelius
"The universe is full of magical things paitiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." Eden Phillpots
"It had been startling and disappointing to find out that storybooks had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Eudora Welty