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“Tea and books - Mmmmmm, two of life's exquisite pleasures that together bring near-bliss.”
Christine Hanrahan
“My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.”
Thomas Helm
“A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.”
Henry David Thoreau
“If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.”
Anatole Broyard
“I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands”
Seneca
“When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.”
Christopher Morley
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.”
“Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse,”
Ernest Hemingway
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