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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
Author: Anatole France
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The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one’s encounter with it in a book.
Author: Andr? Maurois
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The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.
Author: Andrew Ross
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot.
Author: Arabic Proverb
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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
Author: Bern Williams
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A book is to me like a hat or coat – a very uncomfortable thing until the newness has been worn off.
Author: Charles B. Fairbanks
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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.
Author: Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia, 1833
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
Author: Chinese Proverb
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To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one.
Author: Chinese Saying
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Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.
Author: E.M. Forster
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I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
Author: E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
Author: E.P. Whipple
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Author: Edmund Burke
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This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Author: Elbert Hubbard
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No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Many people, other than the authors, contribute to the making of a book, from the first person who had the bright idea of alphabetic writing through the inventor of movable type to the lumberjacks who felled the trees that were pulped for its printing. It is not customary to acknowledge the trees themselves, though their commitment is total.
Author: Forsyth and Rada, Machine Learning
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I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
Author: Francesco Petrarch
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For friends… do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
Author: Francis Bacon
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