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3 Quotes for 'Richard Aungervyle (Aungerville) (a/k/a Richard de Bury)' in the Database.
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Richard Aungervyle (Aungerville) (a/k/a Richard de Bury) Quotes
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The book that he has made renders its author this service in
return, that so long as the book survives, its author remains
immortal and cannot die.
Topic: Authorship
Source: Philobiblon (ch. I, 21)
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Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when
adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give
strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought
forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which
no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
Topic: Books
Source: Philobiblon (ch. I)
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You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of
the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked
are destroyed; fruitful olives, vines of Engaddi, fig-trees
knowing no sterility; burning lamps to be ever held in the hand.
Topic: Books
Source: Philobiblon (ch. XV)
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