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There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!
There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would read more
If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how read more
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them
People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over read more
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul."
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
