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• "Books, to judicious compilers, are useful,--to particular arts and professions absolutely necessary,--to men of real science they are tools; but more are tools to them."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "Books, says Lord Bacon, can never teach us the use of books; the student must learn by commerce with mankind to reduce his speculations to practice. No man should think so highly of himself as to think he can receive but little light from books; no one so meanly, as to believe he can discover nothing but what is to be learned from them."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled; written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be re-kindled."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "I live for books."
  By: Thomas Jefferson
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• "When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, books only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days, and cheer us with that true friendship which never deceived hope nor deserted sorrow."
  By: Washington Irving
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• "The scholar only knows how dear these silent yet eloquent companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity."
  By: Washington Irving
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• "Here, in the country, my books are my sole occupation; books my sure solace, and refuge from frivolous cares. Books the calmers, as well as the instruction of the mind."
  By: Elizabeth Inchbald (nee Simpson)
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• "Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain,--proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, and capable of whatever books can stimulate."
  By: Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt)
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• "It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and which, having so taught us, enable us to recall them with satisfaction when old."
  By: Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt)
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• "I entrench myself in my books, equally against sorrow and the weather."
  By: Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt)
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• "When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make? If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysic, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion."
  By: David Hume, Concerning Human Understanding" (last paragraph)
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• "It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel which may dazzle the eye, but reaches not the affections."
  By: David Hume
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• "Plays and romances sell as well as books of devotion, but with this difference,--more people read the former than buy them, and more buy the latter than read them."
  By: Thomas Hughes
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• "Dear little child, this little book Is less a primer than a key To sunder gates where wonder waits Your "Open Sesame!""
  By: Rupert Hughes, With a First Reader
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• "Be as careful of the books you read as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter."
  By: Edwin Paxton Hood
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• "The foolishest book is a kind of leaky boat on a sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow."
  By: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Poet at the Breakfast-Table (XI)
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