~ A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. ~
~ These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. ~
~ The book you don't read can't help ~
~ A classic is a book which people praise and don't read. ~
~ A book is the only immortality. ~
~ 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. ~
~ The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. ~
~ That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. ~
~ In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
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~ "Classic": A book which people praise but don't read.
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~ The wise man reads both books and life itself. ~
~ The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. ~