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Never judge a book by its movie.
Never judge a book by its movie.
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.
In you are sent
The types of Truths whose life is The To Come;
In you soars read more
In you are sent
The types of Truths whose life is The To Come;
In you soars up the Adam from the fall;
In you the Future as the Past is given--
Ev'n in our death ye bid us hail our birth;--
Unfold these pages, and behold the Heaven,
Without one grave-stone left upon the Earth.
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.
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.
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as read more
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
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.
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.
But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books,
exempted from the wrong of time, and capable read more
But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books,
exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual
renovation.