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    I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands

    by Seneca Found in Books Quotes,
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A library is thought in cold storage.

A library is thought in cold storage.

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My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.

My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.

by Thomas Helm Found in: Books Quotes,
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

by Isaac Asimov Found in: Books Quotes,
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If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it read more

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

by William Hazlitt Found in: Books Quotes,
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The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.

The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.

by Thomas Carlyle Found in: Books Quotes,
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

by Samuel Johnson Found in: Books Quotes,
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

by Robert Louis Stevenson Found in: Books Quotes,
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A man of one book.
[Lat., Homo unius libri.]

A man of one book.
[Lat., Homo unius libri.]

by Amos Bronson Alcott Found in: Books Quotes,
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Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

by Anthony Marcel Found in: Books Quotes,
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