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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.
Hark, the world so loud,
And they, the movers of the world, so still!
Hark, the world so loud,
And they, the movers of the world, so still!
A book is a gift you can open again and again.
A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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.
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them.
It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them.
This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he read more
This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it read more
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
