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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books
The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all
The richest minds need not large libraries
A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit
Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors
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
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