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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.
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 proper study of mankind is books.
The proper study of mankind is books.
This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he read more
This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Worthy books
Are not companions--they are solitudes:
We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.
Worthy books
Are not companions--they are solitudes:
We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind,
which are delivered down from generation to generation, read more
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind,
which are delivered down from generation to generation, as
presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
