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Quotes About Books I
By peace | July 27, 2008
People die, but books never die.
Beware of the man of one book. ~ Thomas Aquinas
There is no friend as loyal as a book. ~ Ernest Hemingway
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. ~ Joseph Addison
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~ Chinese proverb
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. ~ Robert Chambers
A good title is the title of a successful book. ~ Raymond Chandler
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
A room without books is like a body without a soul. ~ Marcus T. Cicero
Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book. ~ Thomas Kempis
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions. ~ Christopher Dawson
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future. ~ Jim Bishop
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency — the belief that the here and now is all there is. ~ Allan Bloom
A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin
Books are not men and yet they stay alive. ~ Stephen Vincent Benet
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. ~ John Harington
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