Any way to delete useless stuff in bookmark menu?

Since Firefox pretty much destroyed itself with version 29, I'm having to use Safari, which I've never particularly liked.
One of the main things I can't stand is all the useless stuff at the top of the bookmark menu, which makes the bookmark menu incredibly "wide" and unwieldy to use.
I have lots of folders, so a slender main bookmark menu helps navigate better. 
In the old days, with Camino (sigh...my favorite browser ever), I could just click on "open package contents", go to the "English.lproj" folder, double click on "mainmenu.nib" and tweak everything to my own satisfaction, shortening text and deleting stuff I never used.
Is there any way to do that with Safari?  When I looked at "package contents" I found the similarly named folder and file, but nothing would open it to change things.
I'd love to get rid of that whole mess about "reading list"...I don't and WON'T ever use that.  Takes up way too much room, especially on a laptop screen.
I'd also love to re-do the text about bookmarking tabs...I don't do that, either.
If those two things and their corresponding dividers could be eliminated, I'd be happy, as the resulting bookmark menu would be only as wide as my longest folder name.
I've tried to illustrate what I'm talking about with this screenshot.  If everything in the red lines could be eliminated, I'd be a happy camper...that would reduce the width of the bookmark menu to a manageable size.
Any ideas?

I was afraid of that.  Bummer that Mac has ceased to be as "tweakable" as it once was.  That was always one of the main reasons I loved the OS, there were so many ways to make it "yours."  If there was something you didn't really like, it was most likely very changeable.  Just seems to get blander and flatter-looking with each new iteration. 
I'm old enough to remember Kaleidoscope with great fondness ;-)

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