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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.
All books grow homilies by time; they are
Temples, at once, and Landmarks.
All books grow homilies by time; they are
Temples, at once, and Landmarks.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
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.
But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books,
exempted from the wrong of time, and capable read more
But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books,
exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual
renovation.
Only your friends steal your books
Only your friends steal your books
A library is thought in cold storage.
A library is thought in cold storage.
Books, books, books!
I had found the secret of a garret room
Piled high with cases in read more
Books, books, books!
I had found the secret of a garret room
Piled high with cases in my father's name;
Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out
Among the giant fossils of my past,
Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs
Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there
At this or that box, pulling through the gap,
In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy,
The first book first. And how I felt it beat
Under my pillow, in the morning's dark,
An hour before the sun would let me read!
My books!
At last, because the time was ripe,
I chanced upon the poets.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
