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Book Quotes

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.
- Desiderius Erasmus

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Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
- George William Curtis

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The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity. -
- Thomas Carlyle

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Book: A garden carried in a pocket.
- Arabian Proverb

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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
- Abraham Lincoln

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I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little
- Voltaire

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Everyone who know how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, multiple the ways in which they exist, to make their life full, significant, and interesting.
- Aldous Huxley

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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
- Mark Twain

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A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
- John Milton

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Books that you may carry to the fire and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.
- Samuel Johnson

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The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.
- Northrup Frye

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Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.
- Henry David Thoreau

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All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.
- Richard De Bury

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'Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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People say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
- Logan Pearsall Smith

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Beware the man of one book.
- Latin Proverb

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There is no past, as long as books shall live.
Books make the past our heritage and our home.
- Edward Bulwer Lytton

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If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures.
- Harry A. Overstreet

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Books to the ceiling
Books to the sky.
My pile of books
Are a mile high.
How I love them!
How I need them!
I'll have a long beard
By the time I read them.
- Arnold Lobel

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Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
- Kathleen Norris

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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
- Sir Francis Bacon

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