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  • Molière Books and marriage go ill together.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • John Ruskin Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • John Milton 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.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Stephen Vincent Benét Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
    Stephen Vincent Benét
    American poet, short story writer, and novelist (1898 - 1943)
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  • Oswald Chambers 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.
    Oswald Chambers
    Scottish preacher, writer (1874 - 1917)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 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.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman 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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    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Charles Eliot 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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  • Edward Gibbon Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Bruce Jackson Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Salman Rushdie Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Francis Bacon Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Books succeed, and lives fail.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Carl Sagan 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.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Thomas B. Aldrich 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.
    Thomas B. Aldrich
    American writer, editor (1836 - 1907)
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  • Samuel Johnson Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson 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.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Paterson Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
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