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Oh that my words were now written! on that they were printed in
a book!
Oh that my words were now written! on that they were printed in
a book!
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few
to be chewed and digested.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few
to be chewed and digested.
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in read more
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way
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.
This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he read more
This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.
People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them
People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.
In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.
