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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
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Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
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Books are not made for furniture but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
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Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.
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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
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Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows.
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Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
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Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
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Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
Wolkenatlas (2008) 357
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