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Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.: Arthur Schoenhauer
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed: Sir W. Temple
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.: Henry C. Rogers
A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.: John Milton (1608 - 1674)
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.: Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul.": Paxton Hood
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.: S. I. Hayakawa
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.: Sir John Denham
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.: William E. Channing
A book may be compared to your neighbor; if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.: Rupert Brooke

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