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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

 

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Readers are plentiful, thinkers are rare.

 

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I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read about the effects of smoking that he gave up reading.

 

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A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum -- of both books and money! But especially books, for books represent infinitely more than money. A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.

 

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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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All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

 

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A book worth reading is worth buying.

 

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The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

 

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Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

 

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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

 

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Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.

 

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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.

 

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A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

 

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There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.

 

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

 

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In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

 

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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

 

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If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.

 

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Our house was a temple to The Book. We owned thousands, nay millions of books. They lined the walls, filled the cupboards, and turned the floor into a maze far more complex than Hampton Court's. Books ruled our lives. They were our demigods.

 

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A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas—a place where history comes to life.