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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.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all
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?
Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when
adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give
strength to read more
Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when
adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give
strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought
forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which
no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
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 lighthouses erected in the great sea of time
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit.
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
