Books Quotes

• "No furniture is so charming as books."
  By: Sydney Smith
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• "Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever."
  By: Swartz, J.
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• "Trusting children and books is a revolutionary act. Books are, after all, dangerous stuff. Leave a child alone with a book and you don't know what might happen."
  By: Susan Ohanian
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• "A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it."
  By: Styron, William
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• "You may have tangible wealth untold; Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold."
  By: Strickland Gillilan
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• "Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life."
  By: Stevenson, Robert Louis
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• "One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct."
  By: Sterne, Laurence
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• "Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! Take them out of this book, for instance, --you might as well take the book along with them; --one cold external winter would reign in every page of it; restore them to the writer; --he steps forth like a bridegroom, --bids All-hail; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail."
  By: Sterne, Laurence
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• "Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."
  By: Stephan Grellet
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• "A novel is a mirror carried along a main road."
  By: Stendhal, Henri B.
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• "The age of the book is almost gone."
  By: Steiner, George
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• "Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs."
  By: Miller, Henry
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• "A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down."
  By: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
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• "There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing."
  By: Mencken, H. L.
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• "There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read."
  By: Mencken, H. L.
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• "The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading."
  By: Mencken, H. L.
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