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Thursday, July 31st, 2008The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man:
nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish;
civilization grow old and die out; new races build others.
But in the world of books are volumes that have seen
this happen again and again and yet live on.
Still young, still as fresh as the day […]
Quotes About Books IV
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008I’ve traveled the world twice over,
Met the famous; saints and sinners,
Poets and artists, kings and queens,
Old stars and hopeful beginners,
I’ve been where no-one’s been before,
Learned secrets from writers and cooks
All with one library ticket
To the wonderful world of books.
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. ~ Martin Farquhar […]
Quotes About Books III
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008We get no good
By being ungenerous, even to a book,
And calculating profits,
– so much help
By so much reading. it is rather when
We gloriously forget ourselves and plunge
Soul-forward, headlong, into a book’s profound,
Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth –
‘T is then we get the right good from a book.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Books, not which […]
