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The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over read more
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul."
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
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.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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.
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
