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Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
Books - Reading
Thomas H. Huxley

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The newest books are those that never grow old.
Books - Reading
George Holbrook Jackson

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I cannot live without books.
Books - Reading
Thomas Jefferson

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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Books - Reading
Samuel Johnson

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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Books - Reading
Joineriana

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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
Books - Reading
Joseph Joubert

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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
Books - Reading
Joseph Joubert

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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
God
Johann Kaspar Lavater

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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
Books - Reading
Spike Lee

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I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
Selfishness
Oscar Levant

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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Books - Reading
Abraham Lincoln

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All books are either dreams or swords.
Books - Reading
Amy Lowell

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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
Books - Reading
James Russell Lowell

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The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
Books - Reading
Martin Luther

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Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
Writers and Writing
Norman Mailer

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The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Books - Reading
Katherine Mansfield

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There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out.
Libraries
Thomas L. Masson

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For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
Literature
Herman Melville

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There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
Books - Reading
H. L. Mencken

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We may live without friends; we may live without books. But civilized men cannot live without cooks.
Crime and Criminals
Owen Meredith

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Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
Books - Reading
John Milton

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Books and marriage go ill together.
Books - Reading
Moliere

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You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.
Books - Reading
John Morely

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I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
Reality
Jean Rostand

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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
Books - Reading
Jean Rostand

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