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• "A best seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent."
  By: Logan Pearsall Smith
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• "Some books are drenched sands, On which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps, Like a wrecked argosy."
  By: Alexander Smith, A Life Drama (sc. 2)
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• "Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book."
  By: Samuel Smiles
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• "Nor wyll suffer this boke By hooke ne by crooke Printed to be."
  By: John Skelton, Duke of Clout
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• "You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin."
  By: Richard Brinsley Sheridan, School for Scandal (act I, sc. 1)
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• "Their books of stature small they take in hand, Which with pellucid horn secured are; To save from finger wet the letters fair."
  By: William Shenstone, The Schoolmistress (st. 18)
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• "When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived."
  By: William Shenstone
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• "People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them."
  By: George Bernard Shaw
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• "But this rough magic There abjure; and when I have required Some heavenly music (which even now I do) To work mine end upon their senses that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Tempest (Prospero at V, i)
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• "So, of his gentleness, Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Tempest (Prospero at I, ii)
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• "I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Slender at I, i)
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• "We turned o'er many books together."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (Clerk at IV, i) BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK
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• "For the success, Although particular, shall give a scantling Of good or bad unto the general; And in such indexes, although small pricks To their subsequent volumes, there is seen The baby figure of the giant mass Of things to come at large."
  By: William Shakespeare, The History of Troilus and Cressida (Nestor at I, iii)
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• "O, let my books be then the eloquence And dumb presagers of my speaking breast, Who plead for love, and look for recompense, More than that tongue that more hath more expressed."
  By: William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXIII
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• "That book in many's eyes doth share the glory, That in gold clasps locks in the golden story; So shall you share all that he doth possess, By having him making yourself no less."
  By: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Wife at I, iii)
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• "Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend."
  By: William Shakespeare, King Lear (Edgar at III, iv)
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