When I was a ten-year-old book worm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
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Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors that they are ready to repeat their lessons as often as we please
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The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
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We cannot learn men from books.
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Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them
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Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them.
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Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners
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All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder.<br/>For filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. <br/>When correctly viewed, everything is lewd. <br/>I could tell you things about Peter Pan,<br/>And the Wizard of OZ, there's a dirty old man!
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If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.
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I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
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Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main.. And best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.
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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favorites
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice
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Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
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A best seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent
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I have seen men hazard their fortunes, go on long journeys halfway around the world, forge friendships, even lie, cheat and steal, all for the gain of a book.
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Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
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There were epochs in the history of the humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes, the epic, the oracles. Sentences inscribed on the walls of the crypts; examples in the portals of the temples. But in those times the writer was not an individual alone; he was the people.
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I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.
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A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
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