Books Quotes

• "To buy books only because they were published by an eminent printer is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because made by some famous tailor."
  By: Alexander Pope
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• "We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most."
  By: Plutarch
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• "Books are the immortal sons deifying their sires."
  By: Plato (originally Aristocles}
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• "A book is a friend that never deceives. [Fr., Un livre est un ami qui ne trompe jamais.]"
  By: ascribed to Rene Charles Guilbert de Pixerecourt
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• "Books never pall me. They discourse with us, they take counsel with us, and are united to us by a certain living chatty familiarity. And not only does each book inspire the sense that it belongs to its readers, but it also suggests the name of others, and one begets the desire of the other."
  By: Francesco Petrarch, Letters
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• "Books have led some to learning and others to madness."
  By: Francesco Petrarch
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• "Books, like friends, should be few, and well chosen."
  By: Samuel Paterson, Joineriana
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• "The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first."
  By: Blaise Pascal
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• "The last thing that we discover in writing a book is to know what to put at the beginning."
  By: Blaise Pascal
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• "What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness."
  By: Theodore Parker
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• "The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading: but a great book that comes from a great thinker--it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and with beauty."
  By: Theodore Parker
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• "The quantity of books in a library is often a cloud of witnesses of the ignorance of the owner."
  By: Count Axel von Oxenstierna (Oxenstjerna or Oxenstiern)
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• "Books are a part of man's prerogative In formal ink, they thought and voices hold That we to them our solitude may give, And make time present travel that of old, Our life fame pieceth longer at the end, And books it farther backward doth extend."
  By: Sir Thomas Overbury
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• "Silent companions of the lonely hour, Friends, who can alter or forsake, Who for inconstant roving have no power, And all neglect, perforce, must calmly take."
  By: Lady Caroline Sheridan Norton (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton)
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• "Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier."
  By: Kathleen Norris (nee Kathleen Thompson and wife of C.G. Norris)
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• "After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speaking of them, and of communicating to the public the innocent richness of thought which we have acquired by the culture of letters."
  By: Charles Nodier
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