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The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
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.
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.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
An art book is a museum without walls.
An art book is a museum without walls.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit.
A man of one book.
[Lat., Homo unius libri.]
A man of one book.
[Lat., Homo unius libri.]
