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    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.

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The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

by Katherine Mansfield Found in: Books Quotes,
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My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.

by Mark Twain Found in: Books Quotes,
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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.

by Theodore Parker Found in: Books Quotes,
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the read more

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

by Charles William Eliot Found in: Books Quotes,
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My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine--everybody drinks water.

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine--everybody drinks water.

by Mark Twain Found in: Books Quotes,
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I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

by Charles De Secondat Found in: Books Quotes,
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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.

by Gilbert Highet Found in: Books Quotes,
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I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored read more

I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.

by John Dawkins Found in: Books Quotes,
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Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

by Elizabeth Hardwick Found in: Books Quotes,
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