Books Quotes

• "A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat."
  By: Maclennan, Hugh
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• "Early one morning I, Vadim Maslennikov, set off for school I was going on seventeen at the time having forgotten the envelope with the first-semester fees Mother had left me in the dining room the day before."
  By: M. Ageyev a pseudonym--real name unknown
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• "In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern."
  By: Lytton, Lord Edward
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• "What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us."
  By: Lowell, James Russell
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• "For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives."
  By: Lowell, Amy
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• "Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents, grumbled Jo, lying on the rug."
  By: Louisa May Alcott
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• "Please, sir, is this Plumfield? asked a ragged boy of the man who opened the great gate at which the omnibus left him."
  By: Louisa May Alcott
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• "You can't tell a book by its movie."
  By: Louis A. Safian the Book of Updated Proverbs
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• "Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings --as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser."
  By: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
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• "I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth."
  By: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
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• "People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."
  By: Logan Pearsall Smith, Trivia, 1917
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• "Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."
  By: Locke, John
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• "A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing."
  By: Lichtenberg, Georg C.
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• "Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes, thrown at rats, others are stood on, sat on, drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to light pipes."
  By: Lichtenberg, Georg C.
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• "There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking."
  By: Lichtenberg, Georg C.
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• "I feel like I'm drowning. Every night, I'm carrying home loads of things to read but I'm too exhausted. I keep clipping things and Xeroxing them and planning to read them eventually, but I just end up throwing it all away and feeling guilty."
  By: Levine, Ghita
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