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of the Day | You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
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| Books Quote | There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that. - Donald J. Adams
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. - Mortimer Adler
For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief. - Fernandez de Andrada
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it." - Jean Anouilh
Beware of the man of one book. - Saint Thomas Aquinas
Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement; and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art. - Pietro Aretino
In politics I am growing indifferent -- I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home. - Francois Arouet
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. - Wystan Hugh Auden
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page. - Saint Augustine
Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. - Sir Francis Bacon
A best seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well. - Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. - Ray Douglas Bradbury
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just. - Anita Brookner
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible - Van Wyck Brooks
No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books. - Elizabeth Barret Browning
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. - James Bryce
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| Author in Books Quotes Anita Brookner
Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin
Donald J. Adams
Elizabeth Barret Browning
Fernandez de Andrada
Francois Arouet
James Bryce
Jean Anouilh
Mortimer Adler
Pietro Aretino
Ray Douglas Bradbury
Saint Augustine
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Sir Francis Bacon
Van Wyck Brooks
Wystan Hugh Auden
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