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Quotations by Subject: Books (82 quotes)

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Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.: Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644)
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.: Theodore Parker (1810 - 1860)
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
We have given away far too many freedoms in order to be free. Now it's time to take some back.: John Le Carre (1931 - ), One of the George Smiley books
People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"
The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.: Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.: Saint Bernard (1090 - 1153), Epistle
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Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.: Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519), The Notebooks
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.: Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519), The Notebooks
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