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Bitter words are good medicine... Sweet words carry infection.

Water and words... Easy to pour Impossible to recover.

Many books do not use up words... Many words do not use up thought.

No book that will not improve by repeated readings, deserves to be read at all.

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past when the body and material substance of has altogether vanished like a dream.

All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.

Poetry we will call Musical Thought.

All poetry is but a giving of names.

A definition encloses a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read.