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  • The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. -James Bryce

  • Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. -Charles W. Eliot

  • A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. -Chinese Proverb

  • We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. - B. F. Skinner

  • Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark twain

  • Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen. - Samuel Johnson

  • Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. -Henry David Thoreau

    Some books leave us free and some books make us free. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • I cannot live without books. -Thomas Jefferson

  • A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools. - Thomas Jefferson

    Books are humanity in spirit - Barbara Tuchman

  • It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. -Oscar Wilde

  • A house without books is like a room without windows. -Heinrich Mann

    There are worse crimes than burning books.One of them is not reading them. - Brodsky Joseph

  • Of writing many books there is no end. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  • 'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?' - Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865)

  • A truly great books should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. - Robertson Davies (In Grant, The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies)

     

  • The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries - Rene Descartes (Discours de la Methode, 1637)
  • The book is the world's most patient medium. - Northrop Frye (The Scholar in Society, Film, 1984)
  • For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. - Ernest Hemingway (Speech for the presentation of the Nobel Prize-1954)
  • All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hours and the books all times. - James Ruskin



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