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Books Quotes

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Books are the best of things, well used; abused, the worst. What is the right use? What is the end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satelite instead of a system.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

- Theodore Parker

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Readers are plentiful, thinkers are rare.

- Harriet Martineau

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People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

- Abraham Lincoln

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Do give books -- religious or otherwise -- for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.

- Lenore Hershey

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The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

- Elizabeth Drew

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I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

- Ann Richards

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

- Mortimer Adler

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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

- Mortimer Adler

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All books are either dreams or swords,
You can cut, or you can drug, with words.

Sword Blades and Poppy Seed

- Amy Lowell

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For books are more than books, they are the life
The very heart and core of ages past,
The reason why men lived and worked and died,
The essence and quintessence of their lives.

Boston Athenaeum

- Amy Lowell

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I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read about the effects of smoking that he gave up reading.

- Henry G. Strauss

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There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.

- Mark Twain

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

- Mark Twain

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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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