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.

Genius is initiative on fire.

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.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

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

Intuition is reason in a hurry.

Be contented when you have got all you want.

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

Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.