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Laws die, Books never.
Laws die, Books never.
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.
Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested.
Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested.
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them
People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them
A book is the only immortality.
A book is the only immortality.
We get no good
By being ungenerous, even to a book,
And calculating profits--so much help
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We get no good
By being ungenerous, even to a book,
And calculating profits--so much help
By so much reading. It is rather when
We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge
Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound,
Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth--
'Tis then we get the right good from a book.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
