Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
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The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
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Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.
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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it come as sincerely from the author's soul
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed
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Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness
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The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible) have no friend in me, for in their realm the fully comprehensible is not worth comprehending
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Borrowers of books, those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
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Books are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.
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There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.
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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
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The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public
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Wine books flow from printing presses like water from broken spigots.
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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Books are the curse of the human race
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That man (Lord Lyttelton) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him
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Koch has committed egocide with this book.
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This book fills a much-needed gap.
It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?
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Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
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In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.
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Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all
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If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it
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I have read your book and much like it.
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