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186 quotesThank you for sending me a copy of your book -- I'll waste no time reading it.
Books - Reading
Moses Hadas
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Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Books - Reading
John Harington
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
Scholars and Scholarship
William Hazlitt
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Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.
Censorship
Heinrich Heine
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A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Comedy and Comedians
Ernest Hemingway
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There is no friend as loyal as a book
Friends and Friendship
Ernest Hemingway
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Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
Books - Reading
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.
Books - Reading
Thomas Hood
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A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
Books - Reading
Anthony Hope
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Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Wisdom
Horace
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The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
Books - Reading
William Dean Howells
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Books - Reading
Victor Hugo
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Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
Books - Reading
Thomas H. Huxley
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There is no robber worse than a bad book.
Books - Reading
Italian Proverb
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The newest books are those that never grow old.
Books - Reading
George Holbrook Jackson
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Honesty
Thomas Jefferson
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I cannot live without books.
Books - Reading
Thomas Jefferson
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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Books - Reading
Samuel Johnson
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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
Law and Lawyers
Samuel Johnson
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Books - Reading
Joineriana
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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
Books - Reading
Joseph Joubert
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
Books - Reading
Joseph Joubert
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One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
Books - Reading
Benjamin Jowett
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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
Autobiography
Henry Kissinger
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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
God
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun