Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
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Then came human beings, they wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to. Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came the human beings, they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate - for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself.
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All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
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There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed from one another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the prope
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Paradise can be found on the back of horses, in books and between the breasts of women.
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Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals
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In politics I am growing indifferent - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home
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So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.
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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
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For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.
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I can not live with out books.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books
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A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.
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