Books Quotes

• "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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• "The place that does Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the, old sages and philosophers; And sometimes for variety, I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels; Calling their victories, if unjustly got, Unto a strict account; and in my fancy, Deface their ill-plac'd statutes."
  By: John William Fletcher
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• "An unread book is just a block of paper."
  By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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• "We are as liable to be corrupted by books as by companions."
  By: Henry Fielding
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• "The princeps copy, clad in blue and gold."
  By: John Ferriar, Bibliomania
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• "Now cheaply bought, for thrice their weight in gold."
  By: John Ferriar, Bibliomania
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• "How pure the joy when first my hands unfold The small, rare volume, black with tarnished gold."
  By: John Ferriar, Bibliomania
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• "Oh, but books are such safe company! They keep your secrets well; they never boast that they made your eyes glisten, or your cheek flush, or your heart throb."
  By: Fanny Fern (pseudonym of Sara Payson Willis Parton)
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• "If the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading, I would spurn them all."
  By: Francois de Salignac Fenelon
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• "Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can."
  By: William Feather
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• "A true book is an inspiration."
  By: Alexander Hill Everett
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• "We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims--Quotation and Originality
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• "In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims--Quotation and Originality
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• "There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the record of intuitions which distribute facts, and are the formulas which supersede all histories."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims--Persian Poetry
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• "Books are the best things, well used: abused, among the worst."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Scholar
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• "The virtue of books is to be readable."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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