The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.
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No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems.
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An apology for the devil it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case God has written all the books.
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You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
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If you're going to be a healer, it's not enough to read books and learn allegorical stories. You need to get your feet wet, get some clinical experience under your belt.
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All of us can think of a book.. That we hope none of our children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf -that work I abhor- then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.
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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
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Associate with the noblest people you can find read the best books live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other people.
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Beyond the formative effects of reading on the individuals composing society, the fact that they have read the same books gives them experiences and ideas in common. These constitute a kind of shorthand of ideas which helps make communication quicker and more efficient. That is what we mean when we say figuratively of another person, We speak the same language.
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Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
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Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
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Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
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History is written by the winners. The books say the Indians were bad guys and the whites just needed a little land. It's like, Excuse me, let me take your car. I'm discovering it. I'm putting my flag on your windshield.
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A home without books is a body without soul.
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Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
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Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
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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 property of all.
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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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The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights... It is time now to write the next chapter-and to write it in the books of law.
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If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
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There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.
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When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food.
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Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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