Books Quotes
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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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Wouldn't you like to have comrades?' But she would not like that. She wanted only to rest and to read her old, rain-swollen books, turning the pages carefully, so carefully.
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I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.
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...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.
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The Henty books provide training in history and in many of the highest aspects of human character... American young people should read not a few Henty books, but all 99 of them.
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Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.
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There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.
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Books allow one to jump into another person's imagination while also exploring their own!
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My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.
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A man will be known by his books.
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Today, with the abundance of books available, it is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. … Feed only on the best. As John Wesley’s mother counseled him: ‘Avoid whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, takes off your relish for spiritual things, … increases the authority of the body over the mind.
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Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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I don't publish the books to make money, not at all.
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I believe in books.
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I know you sometimes think that people are like books. But our lives don’t have neat logical plots, and we don’t always say beautiful, intelligent things like the characters in a novel. That’s not the way life is.
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You can cover a great deal of Countries in books.
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One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!
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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
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It is so very easy and so very pleasant, too, to read only books which lead to nothing, light and interesting books, and the more the better, that it is almost as difficult to wean ourselves from it as from the habit of chewing tobacco to excess, or of smoking the whole time, or of depending for stimulus upon tea or coffee or spirits.
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And I still buy books at B&N, Borders and Elliot Bay ... I probably shouldn't admit this. But I don't care. I love great bookstores.
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One of books is about the genocide in Rwanda and the other book is about a little boy who gets raped. Who needs monsters?
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My best friends are books, I can easily read them and take them wherever I go.
