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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.
Books are a finer world within the world.
Books are a finer world within the world.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
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.
The proper study of mankind is books.
The proper study of mankind is books.
 And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many 
books there is no end: and much study read more 
 And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many 
books there is no end: and much study is a weariness of the 
flesh.