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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names. Marcus Tullius Cicero quotes
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We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.
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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We call some books immortal! Do they live? If so, believe me, Time hath made them pure. In Books, the veriest wicked rest in peace.
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We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
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We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits–so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book’s profound, Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth– Tis then we get the right good from a book.
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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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We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things — the teacher of all truth.
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We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
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Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
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‘What is the use of a book,’ thought Alice, ‘without pictures or conversations?’
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.
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What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.’ Thomas Carlyle
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When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.
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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: ‘His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.’
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When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
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When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
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