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Books Quotes
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
Until it is kindled by a spirit as lovingly alive as the one which gave it birth, a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.
There is not so poor a book in the world that would not be a prodigious effort were it wrought out entirely by a single mind, without the aid of prior investigators.
Vince Nasco sat in an elaborately carved Italian chair with a deep glossy finish that had acquired its remarkable transparency only after a couple of centuries of regular polishing. To his right was a sofa and two more chairs and a low table of equal elegance, arranged before a backdrop of bookcases filled with leather-bound […]
You really lose a lot by never reading books again.
It is, perhaps, not considered through how many hands a book often passes, before it comes into those of the reader; or what part of the profit each hand must retain, as a motive for transmitting it to the next.
The shortest book ever written is “The Sensitive Remarks Made by White Males in Power.”
There is something awfully nice about reading a book again, with all the half-unconscious memories it brings back.
I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning; for that is a sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention: because you have done a great deal, when you have brought him to have entertainment from a book. He’ll get better books […]
