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- A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
- Robertson Davies
- Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.
(Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen) - Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), From his play Almansor (1821)
- When books are burned in the end people will be burned too.
- Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
- A room without books is like a body without a soul.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), (Attributed)
- In the midst of life we are in death. Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
- Book of Common Prayer, Burial Service
- Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983), Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963
- I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), Address to US Congress, 1975
- A book holds a house of gold.
- Chinese Proverb
- A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
- Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
- A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
- Chinese Proverb
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