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An art book is a museum without walls.
An art book is a museum without walls.
It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?
It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?
What is reading, but silent conversation.
What is reading, but silent conversation.
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.
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how read more
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
Books are a finer world within the world.
Books are a finer world within the world.
A book is a gift you can open again and again.
A book is a gift you can open again and again.
