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The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
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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."
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Paxton Hood
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
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Sir John Denham
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Read much, but not many books.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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.
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William E. Channing
A book may be compared to your neighbor; if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
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Rupert Brooke
Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books
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Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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Amos Bronson Alcott (1799 - 1888)
A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
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Jim Bishop
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