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Quotations by Subject: Books (82 quotes)

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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.: Christopher Dawson
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.: William Lyon Phelps
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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

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