Books Quotes

• "If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
  By: Toni Morrison
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• "The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed."
  By: Tolstoy, Count Leo
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• "I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method."
  By: Thurber, James
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• "Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution --such call I good books."
  By: Thoreau, Henry David
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• "Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written."
  By: Thoreau, Henry David
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• "Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all."
  By: Thoreau, Henry David
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• "Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
  By: Thomas Fuller
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• "All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books."
  By: Thomas Carlyle On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History
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• "The true University of these days is a Collection of Books."
  By: Thomas Carlyle
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• "This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant."
  By: Thomas B. Macaulay
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• "The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most."
  By: Theodore Parker
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• "If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!"
  By: Thackeray, William M.
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• "What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it."
  By: Terry, Helen
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• "Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new."
  By: Temple, Sir William
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• "Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed"
  By: Temple, Sir William
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• "No furniture is so charming as books."
  By: Sydney Smith
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