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A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
Author: Anthony Hope
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The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
Author: Sir Arthur Keith
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What is reading, but silent conversation.
Author: Walter Savage Landor
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Author: Harper Lee
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The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Author: Katherine Mansfield
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Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
Author: Anthony Marcel
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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
Author: Harriet Martineau
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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Author: Richard McKenna
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Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
Author: John Milton
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A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.
Author: William Murray
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A library is thought in cold storage.
Author: Herbert Samuel
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Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
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I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Author: Charles de Secondat
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Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
Author: Giorgos Seferis
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My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.
Author: Mark Twain
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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Author: Raoul Vaneigem
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Author: Jessamyn West
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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
Author: Bert Williams
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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
Author: Sir Peregrine Worsthorne
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Choose an author as you choose a friend.
Author: Sir Christopher Wren
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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
Author: Yevgeny Zamyatin
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It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them.
Author: William Osler
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A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
Author: G. C. Lichtenberg
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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Author: Margaret Fuller
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
Author: W. H. Auden
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The newest books are those that never grow old.
Author: Holbrook Jackson
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If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.
Author: Bertrand Russell
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This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.
Author: Thomas B. Macaulay
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Author: Cicero
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If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
Author: William Hazlitt
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Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested.
Author: Francis Bacon
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
Author: William Ellery Channing
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A book is the only immortality.
Author: Rufus Choate
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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a goode booke, kills reason it selfe.
Author: John Milton
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Author: Mark Twain
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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Author: Stephen Vincent Benét
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The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
Author: Theodore Parker
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A wicked book cannot repent.
Author: Old Proverb
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit.
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
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My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine--everybody drinks water.
Author: Mark Twain
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