Books Quotes
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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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I don't publish the books to make money, not at all.
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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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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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I love books. I've always been involved with books and I wanted to help the library in any way possible. I'm an avid reader.
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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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The comic-book industry today is not what it was back then, unfortunately. Kids are no longer interested in reading comic books; they've got television and the electronic games that they can bury themselves in like ostriches. They don't have to pay attention to what's going on in the world around them.
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All books are doors; and some of them are wardrobes.
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A man will be known by his books.
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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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Books fall open, you fall in.
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I believe in books.
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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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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 allow one to jump into another person's imagination while also exploring their own!
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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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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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Books make us feel alive, and though we obviously won’t live forever, they make us feel as if we might.
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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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My best friends are books, I can easily read them and take them wherever I go.
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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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You can cover a great deal of Countries in books.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
