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Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
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John Ruskin

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Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.
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Les Brown

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Beware of the person of one book.
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St. Thomas Aquinas

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Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
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John Wesley

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Books and marriage go ill together.
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Moliere

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Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
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John Ruskin

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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
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Edwin P. Whipple

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Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
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Arthur Schopenhauer

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Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
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E.S. Barrett

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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Henry Ward Beecher

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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
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Stephen Vincent Benet

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

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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
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Robert Chambers

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

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

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Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
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John Harington

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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
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Bert Williams

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

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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Henry David Thoreau

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Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
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Sir John Denham

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Books succeed, and lives fail.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

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Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.
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Walt Whitman

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Choose an author as you choose a friend.
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Sir Christopher Wren

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