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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 real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
In you are sent
The types of Truths whose life is The To Come;
In you soars read more
In you are sent
The types of Truths whose life is The To Come;
In you soars up the Adam from the fall;
In you the Future as the Past is given--
Ev'n in our death ye bid us hail our birth;--
Unfold these pages, and behold the Heaven,
Without one grave-stone left upon the Earth.
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.
A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!
Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
