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Choose an author as you choose a friend.
Choose an author as you choose a friend.
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.
In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.
In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.
Only your friends steal your books
Only your friends steal your books
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a goode booke, kills reason it read more
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a goode booke, kills reason it selfe.
The Wise
(Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay;
But in their books, as from read more
The Wise
(Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay;
But in their books, as from their graves they rise.
Angels--that, side by side, upon our way,
Walk with and warn us!
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time
