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Quotations by Subject: Books (82 quotes)

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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.: Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters...: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, act 1 scene 5
It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter; found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence.: Henry Brougham (1778 - 1868)
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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.: Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
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Beware the man of one book.: Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274)

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