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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
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.
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the
Almighty would answer me, and that mine read more
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the
Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a
book.
My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.
My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands read more
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
