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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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• "In looking around me seeking for miserable resources against the heaviness of time, I open a book and I say to myself, as the cat to the fox: I have only one good turn, but I need no other."
  By: Madame Suzanne Curchod Necker
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• "To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books; they presently fix me to them, and drive the other out of my thoughts, and do not mutiny to see that I have only recourse to them for want of other more, real, natural, and lively conveniences; they always receive me with the same kindness."
  By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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• "Books are a languid pleasure."
  By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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• "Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself."
  By: John Milton, Paradise Regained (bk. IV, l. 327)
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• "Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them."
  By: John Milton, Areopagitica
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• "As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye."
  By: John Milton, Areopagitica
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• "A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."
  By: John Milton, Areopagitica
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• "Many a man lives a burden upon the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond life."
  By: John Milton
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• "For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance."
  By: John Milton
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• "You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them."
  By: Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis), Epigrams (bk. VII, ep. 77)
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• "I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned."
  By: Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
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• "Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse than death, as well as bless with that which is better than life."
  By: Horace Mann
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• "As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book."
  By: George MacDonald, The Marquis of Lossie (ch. XLII)
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• "That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it."
  By: Thomas Babington Macaulay, On Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress
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• "Gentlemen use books as Gentlewomen handle their flowers, who in the morning stick them in their heads, and at night strawe them at their heeles."
  By: John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie), Euphues--To the Gentlemen Readers
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