Quotes 241 till 260 of 489.
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
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Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?
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Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
My early life (1930) -
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
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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.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
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It is nearly an axiom that people will not be better than the books they read.
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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.
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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.
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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) -
It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.
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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.
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It's not for everybody to tweet, it's for everybody to follow. The more people figure that out, they see it's RSS-plus. It's literally the place you check for information.
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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.
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Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.
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Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me
From mine own library with volumes that
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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.
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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
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