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186 quotesTo buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Books - Reading
Arthur Schopenhauer
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O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.
Books - Reading
William Shakespeare
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I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Critics and Criticism
Sydney Smith
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No furniture is so charming as books.
Books - Reading
Sydney Smith
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A multitude of books distracts the mind.
Books - Reading
Socrates
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The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
Writers and Writing
John Steinbeck
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We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
Value
Gloria Steinem
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The age of the book is almost gone.
Books - Reading
George Steiner
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
Books - Reading
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?
Books - Reading
Fred Stoller
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Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
Books - Reading
Sir William Temple
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
Books - Reading
Henry David Thoreau
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Books - Reading
Henry David Thoreau
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
Books - Reading
Herbert True
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
Originality
Barbara Tuchman
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A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.
Books - Reading
Martin Tupper
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Health
Mark Twain
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My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.
Books - Reading
Mark Twain
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People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.
Books - Reading
Mark Twain
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The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.
Books - Reading
Mark Twain
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In every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out.
Opinions
Source Unknown
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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Books - Reading
Raoul Vaneigem
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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Books - Reading
Voltaire
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
Books - Reading
Voltaire
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Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?
Reality
Simone Weil
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun