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Quotations by Subject: Books (82 quotes)

Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebooks (1935)
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebooks (1935)
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), My Early Life, 1930
Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), Notebooks, 1912
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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891, preface
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Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
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