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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.
The proper study of mankind is books.
The proper study of mankind is books.
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 are a finer world within the world.
Books are a finer world within the world.
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
What is reading, but silent conversation.
What is reading, but silent conversation.
You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of
the clerical militia with which the read more
You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of
the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked
are destroyed; fruitful olives, vines of Engaddi, fig-trees
knowing no sterility; burning lamps to be ever held in the hand.
