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Choose an author as you choose a friend.
Choose an author as you choose a friend.
A man of one book.
[Lat., Homo unius libri.]
A man of one book.
[Lat., Homo unius libri.]
The proper study of mankind is books.
The proper study of mankind is books.
A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them
People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind,
which are delivered down from generation to generation, read more
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.
