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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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• "The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar."
  By: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., in a letter to Wu, March 26, 1925, see Shriver's "Book Notices, Uncollected Papers, etc."
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• "Old books as, you well know, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age."
  By: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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• "I like books. I was born and bred among them, and have the easy feeling when I get in their presence, that a stable-boy has among horses."
  By: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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• "Books are the negative pictures of thought, and the more sensitive the mind that receives their images, the more nicely the finest lines are reproduced."
  By: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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• "If I were to pray for a taste which would stand by me under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading."
  By: Sir William Herschel (f/k/a Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel)
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• "Thou art a plant sprung up to wither never, But, like a laurell, to grow green forever."
  By: Robert Herrick, Hesperides--To His Booke
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• "You write a book like that that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer."
  By: Ernest Hemingway
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• "Learning is more profound When in few solid authors 't may be found; A few good books, digested well, do feed The mind; much cloys, and doth ill humors breed."
  By: Robert Heath
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• "The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one."
  By: William Hazlitt (1)
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• "Books wind into the heart."
  By: William Hazlitt (1)
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• "I have ever gained the most profit, and the most pleasure also, from the books which have made me think the most: and, when the difficulties have once been overcome, these are the books which have stuck the deepest root, not only in my memory and understanding, but likewise in my affections."
  By: A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare, Guesses at Truth (p. 458)
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• "Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach and expound the mysteries of man and the universe. They teach us to understand and feel what we see, to decipher and syllable the hieroglyphics of the senses."
  By: Augustus William Hare
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• "The burning soul, the burden'd mind, In books alone companions find."
  By: Mrs. Sarah Josepha (Buell) Hale
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• "A blessing on the printer's art!-- Books are the mentors of the heart."
  By: Mrs. Sarah Josepha (Buell) Hale
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• "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book--I'll waste no time reading it."
  By: Moses Hadas
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