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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

- Charles Caleb Colson

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

- Walt Whitman

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

- Thomas Jefferson

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

- Lillian Hellman

Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.

- Heinrich Heine

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore!

- Henry Ward Beecher

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In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

- Mortimer Adler

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It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

- William Osler

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I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

- Heinrich Heine

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

- Arnold Lobel

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Only one hour in a day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.

- Rose Macaulay

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The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

- bell hooks

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If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.

- Mortimer Adler

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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

- Aldous Huxley

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

- John Ruskin

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A book worth reading is worth buying.

- John Ruskin

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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

- T. S. Eliot

Our house was a temple to The Book. We owned thousands, nay millions of books. They lined the walls, filled the cupboards, and turned the floor into a maze far more complex than Hampton Court's. Books ruled our lives. They were our demigods.

- Nick Bantock

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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

- Albert Camus

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I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and individuals, although they are part of large economic and social processes, influence history. Every mass is after all made up of millions of individuals.

- Denise Levertov

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum -- of both books and money! But especially books, for books represent infinitely more than money. A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.

- Henry Miller