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Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can
Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can
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.
The book you don't read can't help
The book you don't read can't help
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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.
A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.
A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
