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“People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them”
George Bernard Shaw
“'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine everybody drinks water”
Mark Twain
“I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil”
Voltaire
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
Charles W. Eliot
“I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little.”
“It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books”
“Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“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
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”
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