Books Quotes

• "Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man."
  By: Whitman, Walt
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• "The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books that people talk about we never can recall; And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all."
  By: Wells, Carolyn
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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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• "Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders."
  By: Walter Bagehot
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• "The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything."
  By: Walter Bagehot
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• "Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing."
  By: W. Gladden
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• "It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books."
  By: Voltaire
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• "All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books."
  By: Voltaire
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• "The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
  By: Voltaire
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• "Second-hand are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack."
  By: Virginia Woolf The Art of the Personal Essay
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• "Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own."
  By: Vaneigem, Raoul
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• "I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind."
  By: Ursula K. LeGuin Dancing at the Edge of the World
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• "I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs."
  By: Unknown, Source
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• "In any situation, ask yourself: What strengths do I possess that can contribute towards accomplishing something in this situation? Then follow through."
  By: Unknown, Source
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• "Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience."
  By: Unknown, Source
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• "Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read."
  By: Unknown, Source
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