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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

E.P. Whipple

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.

Edward P. Morgan

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.

G.K. Chesterton

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

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Henry David Thoreau

To choose a good book, look in an inquisitorís prohibited list.

John Aikin

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors.

Henry Ward Beecher

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

Holbrook Jackson

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

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

William Styron

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

Gilbert Highet

The book you don't read can't help

Jim Rohn

A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.

Mark Twain

A book is the only immortality.

Rufus Choate

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

Charles Lamb

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

Samuel Butler

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

Wystan Hugh Auden

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

Gaston Bachelard

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

Thomas Carlyle

"Classic": A book which people praise but don't read.

Mark Twain

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