Books Quotes

• "The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it."
  By: More, Hannah
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• "Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come."
  By: Montesquieu
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• "Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged."
  By: Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
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• "No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting."
  By: Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley
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• "Books and marriage go ill together."
  By: Moliere
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• "Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them."
  By: Milton, John
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• "Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason itself."
  By: Milton, John
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• "For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men."
  By: Milton, John
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• "A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond."
  By: Milton, John
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• "All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet -- if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content."
  By: Miller, Henry
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• "A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there -- that of the pulse, the heart beat."
  By: Miller, Henry
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• "To read too many books is harmful."
  By: Zedong, Mao
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• "Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see."
  By: Wycherley, William
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• "Choose an author as you choose a friend."
  By: Wren, Sir Christopher
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• "Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?"
  By: Woolf, Virginia
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• "The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it."
  By: Wolfe, Thomas
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