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Quotations by Subject: Books (82 quotes)

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To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second time is to meet an old one.: Selwyn Champion
There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted.: Book of Common Prayer
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912)
There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort.: Henry James (1843 - 1916), "The Ambassadors", Book Fifth, Chapter 3
Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught.: Henry James (1843 - 1916), "The Ambassadors", Book Fourth, Chapter 2
A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can not expect an apostle to peer out.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebooks (1935)
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Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880), "Middlemarch", Book I, ch.1
To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.: Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919)
I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Timequake, 1997

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