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“People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them”
George Bernard Shaw
“Every burned book enlightens the world.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Books had instant replay long before televised sports.”
Bern Williams
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
Mark Twain
“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study of books”
Chinese Proverbs
“Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent to me”
Anatole France
“Study from new books but from old teachers”
Turkish Proverb
“Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life."”
Helen Exley
“Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.”
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
