Quotes with books

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  • Winston Churchill It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
    My early life (1930)
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Leigh Hunt It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
    Leigh Hunt
    British poet, essaywriter (1784 - 1859)
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  • William Ellery Channing It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Victor Hugo It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Sir William Osler It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Dennis Potter It is nearly an axiom that people will not be better than the books they read.
    Dennis Potter
    English playwright (1935 - 1994)
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  • Carolyn Wells It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.
    Carolyn Wells
    American writer and poet (1862 - 1942)
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  • Bill Vaughan It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Carl Sagan It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls.
    Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Alain de Botton It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Blair Underwood It's just different discipline, just doing the voice over. I guess I've done about 5 or 6 audio books in the past and I do the animated voice for a show called Fatherhood on Nickelodeon.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Mark Twain 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.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Shakespeare Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me
    From mine own library with volumes that
    I prize above my dukedom.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • John Erskine Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.
    John Erskine
    American educator and author, pianist and composer (1879 - 1951)
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  • Avi Arad Listen, my day job is also Chief Creative Officer for Marvel, and it's a very painful job because we publish a lot of books, and there are things I see where I can punch people out. Therefore, we have some new people now, and the kids are going to read our books.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • W. H. Auden Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Gaston Bachelard Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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