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All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[An art book is a museum without walls. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66652<![CDATA[Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66167<![CDATA[People read books and they find a new world that can change their lives. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66101<![CDATA[Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66066<![CDATA[A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65689<![CDATA[I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65544<![CDATA[Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64932<![CDATA[The multitude of books is making us ignorant. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64670<![CDATA[There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64238<![CDATA[I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63834<![CDATA[Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63805<![CDATA[The proper study of mankind is books. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63747<![CDATA[A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63722<![CDATA[Books are a finer world within the world. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63550<![CDATA[A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63427<![CDATA[Every book is a children's book if the kid can read! ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63411<![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4611<![CDATA[My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine--everybody drinks water. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4612<![CDATA[My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4588<![CDATA[Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4589<![CDATA[Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4590<![CDATA[Books had instant replay long before televised sports. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4591<![CDATA[Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4592<![CDATA[Choose an author as you choose a friend. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4593<![CDATA[Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4594<![CDATA[It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4595<![CDATA[A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4596<![CDATA[A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4597<![CDATA[A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4598<![CDATA[The newest books are those that never grow old. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4599<![CDATA[If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4600<![CDATA[This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4601<![CDATA[A room without books is like a body without a soul. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4602<![CDATA[If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4603<![CDATA[Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4604<![CDATA[Some books leave us free and some books make us free. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4605<![CDATA[Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4606<![CDATA[Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a goode booke, kills reason it ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4607<![CDATA[The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4608<![CDATA[Books are not men and yet they stay alive. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4609<![CDATA[A wicked book cannot repent. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4610<![CDATA[Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4579<![CDATA[Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4580<![CDATA[Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4581<![CDATA[Deep versed in books and shallow in himself. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4582<![CDATA[A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4583<![CDATA[A library is thought in cold storage. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4584<![CDATA[Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4585<![CDATA[I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4586<![CDATA[Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4587