If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free
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He that loveth a book will never want for a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter
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My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands
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A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way
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Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
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Books are humanity in print.
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People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them
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A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.
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Now you understand the Oriental passion for tea, said Japhy. Remember that book I told you about the first sip is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.
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A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds.. In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books.
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Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.
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Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
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When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the event by; it is good and made by a good workman
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There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.
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My heart is a gypsy - continuously searching for a home, fighting within itself, wondering whether it is weak or even right for that matter to be searching in the first place. Lonliness is what it feels like..
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Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.
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A truly great book 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.
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The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.
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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
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Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.
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