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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.
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Lord Byron
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A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
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A book is the only immortality.
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Rufus Choate
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A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
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Anthony Hope
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A book that is shut is but a block.
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Thomas Fuller
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A book worth reading is worth buying.
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John Ruskin
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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
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Mark Twain
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A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.
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William Murray
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A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.
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Martin Tupper
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A good title is the title of a successful book.
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Raymond Chandler
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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
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Margaret Fuller
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A library is thought in cold storage.
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Herbert Samuel
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A multitude of books distracts the mind.
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Socrates
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Henri B. Stendhal
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A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
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Albert Camus
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A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
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Hugh Maclennan
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A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.
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Joyce Carey
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A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
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W. H. Auden
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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Marcus T. Cicero
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A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
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Marshall Mcluhan
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A wicked book cannot repent.
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Proverb
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All books are either dreams or swords.
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Amy Lowell
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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
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Voltaire
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Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
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John Ruskin
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Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.
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Les Brown
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Beware of the person of one book.
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
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John Wesley
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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Moliere
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Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
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John Ruskin
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
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Edwin P. Whipple
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Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
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E.S. Barrett
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
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Stephen Vincent Benet
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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
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James Russell Lowell
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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
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Robert Chambers
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Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
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Thomas H. Huxley
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Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
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Edward Gibbon
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Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
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John Harington
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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
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Bert Williams
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Joineriana
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Henry David Thoreau
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Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
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Sir John Denham
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Books succeed, and lives fail.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
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Samuel Johnson
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Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.
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Walt Whitman
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Choose an author as you choose a friend.
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Sir Christopher Wren
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