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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have read more
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book,
that it may be read more
Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book,
that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.
The newest books are those that never grow old.
The newest books are those that never grow old.
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
What is reading, but silent conversation.
What is reading, but silent conversation.
