Quotes 101 till 120 of 443.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
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Books tap the wisdom of our species - the greatest minds, the best teachers - from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.
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Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.
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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
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Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.
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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed
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Books, the children of the brain.
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Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
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Borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
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Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
Literary Occasions (2012) 188 -
But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.
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Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.
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