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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Beware of the man of one book. - Saint Thomas Aquinas |
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| 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 |
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| In politics I am growing indifferent -- I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home. - Francois Arouet |
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| Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. - Wystan Hugh Auden |
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| The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page. - Saint Augustine |
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| Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. - Sir Francis Bacon |
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| A best seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well. - Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin |
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| You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. - Ray Douglas Bradbury |
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| The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just. - Anita Brookner |
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| 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 |
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| No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books. - Elizabeth Barret Browning |
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| The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. - James Bryce |
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