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~ Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. ~

Charles W Eliot 1834

~ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. ~

Mark Twain

~ Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity. ~

George Steiner

~ Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. ~

James Russell Lowell

~ Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life." ~

Helen Exley

~ Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. ~

Jesse Lee Bennett

~ Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. ~

Walter Pater

~ A house without books is like a room without windows. ~

Heinrich Mann

~ Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends. ~

Dawn Adams

~ We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey. ~

John Hope Franklin

~ Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. ~

Charles W Eliot 1834

~ Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end, which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and a houseful of books isn't poor. ~

Sam Levenson

~ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. ~

Mark Twain

~ Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. ~

Charles W. Eliot

~ Books are the glass of council to dress ourselves by. ~

Bulstrode Whitlock

~ Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. ~

Henry Ward Beecher

~ Books are embalmed minds. ~

Bovee

~ The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. ~

Ross MacDonald

~ Books are immortal sons deifying their sires. ~

Plato

~ Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. ~

Jeremy Collier

~ The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can ~

William Feather

~ Books are humanity in print. ~

Barbara W. Tuchman

~ Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. ~

Henry David Thoreau

~ Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. ~

Oprah Winfrey

~ Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. ~

Elizabeth Hardwick

~ Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time ~

Edwin P. Whipple

~ This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. ~

Elbert Hubbard

~ Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We cannot learn men from books. ~

Benjamin Disraeli

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