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- Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
- Charles W. Eliot (1834 - 1926), The Happy Life
- 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 and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), Old Newsman Writes, Esquire, December 1934
- Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), An Apology for Idlers, 1874
- Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. in the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
- Whitney Griswold, Address to students at Phillips Academy, 1952
- Life is one long process of getting tired.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), Notebooks, 1912
- One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- We know nothing about motivation. All we can of is write books about it.
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
- He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
- Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
- These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
- Gilbert Highet
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