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101 quotesBooks choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Writers and Writing
Salman Rushdie
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Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
Books - Reading
John Ruskin
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You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
Books - Reading
John Ruskin
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Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
Books - Reading
Arthur Schopenhauer
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To 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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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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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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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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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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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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Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
Books - Reading
John Wesley
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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
Books - Reading
Edwin P. Whipple
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A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Flowers
Walt Whitman
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The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
Books - Reading
Oscar Wilde
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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
Books - Reading
Bert Williams
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Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
Books - Reading
William Wycherley
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Unlearned men of books are like the eunuchs who are guardians of the beautiful.
Learning
Young
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun