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186 quotesYou can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.
Defeat
Paul Brown
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Books succeed, and lives fail.
Books - Reading
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
Writers and Writing
Jean De La Bruyere
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How can I die? I'm booked.
Age and Aging
George Burns
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They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.
Plagiarism
Sir Richard Burton
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'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in it.
Books - Reading
Lord Byron
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The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
Books - Reading
Lord Byron
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
Books - Classics
Italo Calvino
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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.
Time and Time Management
Thomas Carlyle
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The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Books - Reading
Thomas Carlyle
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The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Libraries
Thomas Carlyle
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I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.
Modern and Modernism
Angela Carter
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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
Books - Reading
Robert Chambers
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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
Books - Reading
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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A good title is the title of a successful book.
Books - Reading
Raymond Chandler
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
Wisdom
Chinese Proverb
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A book is the only immortality.
Books - Reading
Rufus Choate
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Books - Reading
Marcus T. Cicero
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Critics and Criticism
Jackie Collins
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
Books - Reading
Charles Caleb Colton
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I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.
Books - Reading
Coolio
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Next, in importance to books are their titles.
Books - Reading
Paul Davies
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The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
Books - Reading
Christopher Dawson
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Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
Books - Reading
Sir John Denham
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.
Books - Reading
Rene Descartes
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun