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    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.

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Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

by Jane Smiley Found in: Books Quotes,
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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

by Jan Morris Found in: Books Quotes,
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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

by William Ellery Channing Found in: Books Quotes,
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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.

by Warren Chappell Found in: Books Quotes,
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Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

by Mitch Hedberg Found in: Books Quotes,
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Worthy books
Are not companions--they are solitudes:
We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.

Worthy books
Are not companions--they are solitudes:
We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.

by Philip James Bailey Found in: Books Quotes,
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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.

by Amos Bronson Alcott Found in: Books Quotes,
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A book is the only immortality.

A book is the only immortality.

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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.

by Bible Found in: Books Quotes,
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