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Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading read more
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
He that loveth a book will never want for a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual read more
He that loveth a book will never want for a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter
We get no good
By being ungenerous, even to a book,
And calculating profits--so much help
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We get no good
By being ungenerous, even to a book,
And calculating profits--so much help
By so much reading. It is rather when
We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge
Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound,
Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth--
'Tis then we get the right good from a book.
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
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.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it read more
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
