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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
A home without books is a body without soul
People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true
Books, like friends, should be few and well-chosen
You cannot open a book without learning something
The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most
Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, �Lighthouses� as the poet said �erected in the sea of time.� They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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