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A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books,
exempted from the wrong of time, and capable read more
But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books,
exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual
renovation.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know read more
I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.
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.
Books are a finer world within the world.
Books are a finer world within the world.
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.
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
