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A library is thought in cold storage.
Herbert Samuel
A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
Samuel Johnson
People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.
Mark Twain
Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!
Charles Baudelaire
The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
Proverb
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
Ursula K. LeGuin
Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
Benjamin Disraeli
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
Samuel Butler
Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
Thomas Kempis
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
William Ellery Channing
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.
He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
Charles Lamb
I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me.
Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific--and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise-- Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
John Keats, On First Looking Int
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.
Jean de la Bruyere
Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading
C.S. Lewis
Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.
Christine Gregoire
