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Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life."
Category: Books and Reading Author: Helen Exley
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There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Jim Fiebig
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This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Elbert Hubbard
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Mark Twain
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A book is to me like a hat or coat - a very uncomfortable thing until the newness has been worn off.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Charles B Fairbanks
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If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Author Unknown
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Books are the glass of council to dress ourselves by.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Bulstrode Whitlock
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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Reading means borrowing.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Jesse Lee Bennett
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The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Washington Irving
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When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Clifton Fadiman
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For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Francis Bacon
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A book that is shut is but a block.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Thomas Fuller
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In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Thomas Carlyle
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There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?
Category: Books and Reading Author: Marina Tsvetaeva
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The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Howard Pyle
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No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Medicine for the soul.
Category: Books and Reading
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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
Category: Books and Reading Author: E P Whipple
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