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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.
A book is a gift you can open again and again.
A book is a gift you can open again and again.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
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 good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
A book is the only immortality.
A book is the only immortality.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
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.
