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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 real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
Books are a finer world within the world.
Books are a finer world within the world.
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."
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
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.
