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- Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
- Yevgeny Zamyatin
- Society is now one polished horde, --- Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
- Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), Don Juan
- It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- 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
- 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
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