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Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in read more
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence
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.
Only your friends steal your books
Only your friends steal your books
People read books and they find a new world that can change their lives.
People read books and they find a new world that can change their lives.
Hark, the world so loud,
And they, the movers of the world, so still!
Hark, the world so loud,
And they, the movers of the world, so still!
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of
the clerical militia with which the read more
You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of
the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked
are destroyed; fruitful olives, vines of Engaddi, fig-trees
knowing no sterility; burning lamps to be ever held in the hand.
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.
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
