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“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all”
Abraham Lincoln
“I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil”
Voltaire
“One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.”
George W. Bush
“The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.”
Oscar Wilde
“'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
“Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.”
“The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.”
“My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.”
Thomas Helm
“It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books”
“I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little.”
