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I don't go by the rule book I lead from the heart, not the head.
Rules
Princess of Wales Diana

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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Books - Reading
Charles Dickens

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
Death and Dying
John Donne

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A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
Books - Classics
Carl Van Doren

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We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Motivation
Peter F. Drucker

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Never judge a book by its movie.
Books - Reading
J. W. Eagan

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
Action
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Books - Reading
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Critics and Criticism
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Never read any book that is not a year old.
Books - Reading
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Books - Reading
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Books - Reading
Desiderius Erasmus

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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
Books - Reading
Henry Fielding

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The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.
The future
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
Literature
Ford Madox Ford

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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
Dignity
Edward M. Forster

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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
Books - Reading
Edward M. Forster

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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
History and Historians
Anatole France

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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
Books - Reading
Anatole France

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Read much, but not many books.
Books - Reading
Benjamin Franklin

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A book that is shut is but a block.
Books - Reading
Thomas Fuller

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Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Learning
Thomas Fuller

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Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
Books - Reading
Edward Gibbon

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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Books - Classics
Edmond and Jules De Goncourt

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I have read your book and much like it.
Books - Reading
Moses Hadas

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun