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Monday, July 28th, 2008A good book is the purest essence of a human soul. ~ Thomas Carlyle
Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room
piled high with cases in my father’s name;
Piled high, packed large, –where, creeping in and out
among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse
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Quotes About Books I
Sunday, July 27th, 2008People 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 […]
Quotes About Reading III
Saturday, July 26th, 2008Learning to read has been reduced to a process of mastering
a series of narrow, specific, hierarchical skills.
Where armed-forces recruits learn the components of a rifle
or the intricacies of close order drill “by the numbers,”
recruits to reading learn its mechanics sound
by sound and word by word.
~ Jacquelyn Gross
It is no more necessary that a man […]
