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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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"Every great book is an action, and every great action is a book."
By: Martin Luther
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"What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticised for us!"
By: James Russell Lowell, My Study Windows--Library of Old Authors
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"If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I would answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, and that is a book honestly come by."
By: James Russell Lowell, before the U.S. Senate Committee on Patents
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"All books are either dreams or swords, You can cut, or you can drug, with words. . . . . My swords are tempered for every speech, For fencing wit, or to carve a breach Through old abuses the world condones."
By: Amy Lowell, Sword Blades and Poppy Seed
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"Books are sepulchres of thought."
By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Wind Over the Chimney (st. 8)
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"Leaving us heirs to amplest heritages Of all the best thoughts of the greatest sages, And giving tongues unto the silent dead!"
By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sonnet of Mrs. Kemble's Reading from Shakespeare
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"The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!"
By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Seaside and Fireside--Dedication
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"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books."
By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"It is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case, it is a pious thing to collect them."
By: Frederick Locker-Lampson
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"It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older."
By: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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"Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings."
By: Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater)
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"The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defence."
By: John Alfred Langford, The Praise of Books--Preliminary Essay
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"A wise man will select his books, for he would not wish to class them all under the sacred name of friends. Some can be accepted only as acquaintances. The best books of all kinds are taken to heart, and cherished as his most precious possessions. Others to be chatted with for a time, to spend a few pleasant hours with, and laid aside, but not forgotten."
By: John Alfred Langford, The Praise of Books--Preliminary Essay
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"Strong as man and tender as woman, they welcome you in every mood, and never turn from you in distress."
By: John Alfred Langford
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"No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men."
By: John Alfred Langford
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"Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? ''And here is my good big centipede!'' If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race."
By: William S. Burroughs
Women Quotes

"Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way."
By: William S. Burroughs
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"A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold."
By: Julie Burchill
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"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."
By: Plato Greek philosopher (427 BC - 347 BC)
Child Quotes

"At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death."
By: Cesare Pavese
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"It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child."
By: Liza Minnelli
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"A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far."
By: Alice Meynell
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"Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child."
By: Norman Mailer
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