Books Quotes

• "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book--I'll waste no time reading it."
  By: Moses Hadas
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• "I armed her against the censures of the world; showed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they could not bring us to enjoy life, they would at least teach us to endure it."
  By: Oliver Goldsmith, Vicar of Wakefield (ch. XXII)
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• "In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary."
  By: Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World (letter LXXII)
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• "Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly--should still be new."
  By: Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World (letter LXXII)
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• "Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me."
  By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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• "In a well-written book we are presented with the maturest reflections, or the happiest flights of a mind of uncommon excellence. It is impossible that we can be much accustomed to such companions without attaining some resemblance to them."
  By: William Godwin
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• "The silent power of books is a great power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them which those alone can know who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they may yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations."
  By: Henry Giles
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• "Those faithful mirrors, which reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes."
  By: Edward Gibbon
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• "A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life."
  By: Edward Gibbon
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• "It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds; and these invaluable communications are within the reach of all."
  By: Comtesse de Genlis, Stephanie-Felicite du Crest de Saint-Aubin
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• "Some books are only cursorily to be tasted of."
  By: Thomas Fuller (1), Holy and Profane States--Of Books
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• "To divert at any time a troublesome fancy, run to thy books; they presently fix thee to them, and drive the other out of thy thoughts. They always receive thee with the same kindness."
  By: Thomas Fuller (1)
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• "Thou mayst as well expect to grow strong by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and gives health and vigor to the mind."
  By: Thomas Fuller (1)
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• "It is thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and gives health and vigor to the mind."
  By: Thomas Fuller (1)
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• "There is nothing so imperishable as a book."
  By: James Hain Friswell
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• "I would define a book as a work of magic whence escape, all kinds of images to trouble the souls and change the hearts of men."
  By: Jacques Anatole I. France (Jacques Anatole Thibault)
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