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~ If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books. ~

Alan King

~ 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 ~

Joseph Addison

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

Henry Ward Beecher

~ If we encounter a man of rare intellect,we should ask him what books he reads. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. ~

Barbara W. Tuchman

~ The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. ~

Abraham Lincoln

~ An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never been a moment of my life in which I should have relinquished for it the enjoyments of my family, my farm, my friends and books. ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books ~

William Cowper

~ It is not the number of books you read, nor the variety of sermons you hear, nor the amount of religious conversation in which you mix, but it is the frequency and earnestness with which you meditate on these things till the truth in them becomes your own and part of your being, that ensures your growth ~

Frederick William Robertson

~ The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you have just learned how to cook. ~

Andy Rooney

~ The only books that separate ground water and surface water are our law books. ~

Duane Smith

~ Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art. ~

George Henry Lewes

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

Henry David Thoreau

~ Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. ~

Francis Bacon

~ Make books your companions; let your bookshelves be your gardens; bask in their beauty, gather their fruit, pluck their roses, take their spices and myrrh. ~

Samuel Ben Judah Ibn Tibbon 1150

~ Books are for nothing but to inspire. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. ~

Mark Twain

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

E.P. Whipple

~ Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. ~

William Hazlitt

~ Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. ~

Abraham Lincoln

~ Books had instant replay long before televised sports. ~

Bern Williams

~ Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~

Mark Twain

~ Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all ~

Abraham Lincoln

~ Only your friends steal your books ~

Voltaire

~ These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. ~

Gilbert Highet

~ The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. ~

Samuel Butler

~ My alma mater was books, a good library - I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity ~

Malcolm X

~ When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life. ~

Joyce Carol Oates

~ If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it ~

Bette Midler

~ There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in customs, institutions and monuments ~

Joseph Anderson

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