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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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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Books - Reading
Charles Dickens
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We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Motivation
Peter F. Drucker
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Books - Reading
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Books - Reading
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Books - Reading
Desiderius Erasmus
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
Books - Reading
Henry Fielding
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The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.
The future
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
Literature
Ford Madox Ford
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
Dignity
Edward M. Forster
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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
History and Historians
Anatole France
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
Books - Reading
Anatole France
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Read much, but not many books.
Books - Reading
Benjamin Franklin
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Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Learning
Thomas Fuller
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Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
Books - Reading
Edward Gibbon
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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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Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.
Censorship
Heinrich Heine
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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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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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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun