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

Henry Ward Beecher

A book that is shut is but a block.

Thomas Fuller

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

He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot.

Arabic Proverb

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

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.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time

Edwin P. Whipple

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

George Robert Gissing

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

George Robert Gissing

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

Elbert Hubbard

Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.

John Ruskin

Never judge a book by its movie.

J.W. Eagan

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon

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

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

Francis Bacon

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

Mark Twain

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