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Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Judah Ibn Tibbon
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Francis Bacon
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Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Walter Pater
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That place that does contain
My books, the best companions, is to me
A glorious court, where hourly I converse
With the old sages and philosophers;
And sometimes, for variety, I confer
With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;
Calling their victories, if unjustly got,
Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,
Deface their ill-placed statues.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Francis Beaumont
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint.... What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Henry David Thoreau
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To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one.
Category: Books and Reading Source: Chinese Saying
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O for a Booke and a shdie nooke, eyther in-a-doore or out;
With the grene leaves whisp'ring overhede, or the Streete cryes all about.
Where I maie Reade all at my ease, both of the Newe and Olde;
For a jollie goode Booke whereon to looke is better to me than Golde.
Category: Books and Reading Author: John Wilson
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Anatole France
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A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Jeremy Collier
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Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Plato
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Mary Wortley Montagu
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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Woodrow Wilson
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Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Henry David Thoreau
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It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Sutton Elbert Griggs
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Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Rose Macaulay
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What holy cities are to nomadic tribes - a symbol of race and a bond of union - great books are to the wandering souls of men: they are the Meccas of the mind.
Category: Books and Reading Author: G E Woodberry
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God be thanked for books! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Category: Books and Reading Author: W E Channing
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A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Holbrook Jackson
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A blessed companion is a book, - a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend,... a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into our own.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Douglas Jerrold
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Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
Category: Books and Reading Author: William Styron
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