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~ A home without books is a body without soul. ~

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

~ I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style. ~

Louis Aragon

~ Burn old wood, read old books, drink old wines, have old friends. ~

Alfonso X

~ Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. ~

Wystan Hugh Auden

~ For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look and behave; and it is usually these popular ideas, rather than those of medical professionals, that turn up in songs and stories and plays and books. ~

Margaret Eleanor Atwood

~ Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. ~

Gaston Bachelard

~ We are motivated by a keen desire for praise and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves even in those books which they write in contempt of glory inscribe their names. ~

Cicero

~ In books lies the soul of the whole past time. ~

Thomas Carlyle

~ The wise man reads both books and life itself. ~

Lin Yutang

~ Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. ~

Buddha

~ The multitude of books is making us ignorant. ~

Voltaire

~ We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it. ~

Peter F Drucker

~ Children have a natural antipathy to books - handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them. ~

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

~ Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy. ~

H. L. Mencken

~ Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf. ~

Sam Ewing

~ [A] lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools. ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. ~

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

~ Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. ~

Heinrich Heine

~ Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness. ~

Kate DiCamillo

~ Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print. ~

Arthur Schopenhauer

~ Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them. ~

Philip Dormer Stanhope

~ When her name is mentioned in the opera history books we will recall that vibrant, soaring tone-that and the blinding, high-beam-headlight smile that she flashed on her fans at each curtain call. ~

Donal Henahan

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

Abraham Lincoln

~ A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints ~

Wilfred Peterson

~ Equations seem like treasures, spotted in the rough by some discerning individual, plucked and examined, placed in the grand storehouse of knowledge, passed on from generation to generation. This is so convenient a way to present scientific discovery, and so useful for textbooks, that it can be called the treasure-hunt picture of knowledge. ~

Robert P. Crease

~ Books are immortal sons deifying their sires. ~

Plato

~ It started off as a hobby. I was never one to do much fishing and hunting. On occasion I did. I was mostly a homebody with a fairy tale marriage. To tell you the truth I was an egghead growing up. I was a bookworm. I kept my head in books, a sort of introverted type person. ~

Gerald Pruitt

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