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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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We get no good
By being ungenerous, even to a book,
And calculating profits--so much help
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We get no good
By being ungenerous, even to a book,
And calculating profits--so much help
By so much reading. It is rather when
We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge
Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound,
Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth--
'Tis then we get the right good from a book.

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People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them

by George Bernard Shaw 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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You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of
the clerical militia with which the read more

You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of
the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked
are destroyed; fruitful olives, vines of Engaddi, fig-trees
knowing no sterility; burning lamps to be ever held in the hand.

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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

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Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

by Mitch Hedberg Found in: Books Quotes,
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A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

by G. C. Lichtenberg Found in: Books Quotes,
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Oh that my words were now written! on that they were printed in
a book!

Oh that my words were now written! on that they were printed in
a book!

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