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"In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity."
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Learn as much by writing as by reading."
By: Lord Acton
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"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
By: Groucho Marx
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"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
By: G K Chesterton
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"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them."
By: Charles Caleb Colton
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"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."
By: Voltaire
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"No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books."
By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery."
By: G K Chesterton
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"It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have."
By: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."
By: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."
By: Sir Francis Bacon
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"No two persons ever read the same book."
By: Edmund Wilson
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"The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning; Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom; And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former."
By: Samuel Smiles
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"Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books!"
By: Thomas Carlyle
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"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page."
By: Saint Augustine
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"A dedication is a wooden leg."
By: Edward Young, Love of Fame (satire IV, l. 192)
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"Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? ''And here is my good big centipede!'' If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race."
By: William S. Burroughs
Women Quotes

"Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way."
By: William S. Burroughs
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"A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold."
By: Julie Burchill
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"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."
By: Plato Greek philosopher (427 BC - 347 BC)
Child Quotes

"At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death."
By: Cesare Pavese
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"It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child."
By: Liza Minnelli
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"A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far."
By: Alice Meynell
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"Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child."
By: Norman Mailer
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