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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
Only your friends steal your books
Only your friends steal your books
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."
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read read more
If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
Oh that my words were now written! on that they were printed in
a book!
Oh that my words were now written! on that they were printed in
a book!
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
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.