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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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A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.

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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.

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Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed

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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

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Society is now one polished horde, --- Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.

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Whoever in prayer can say, "Our Father," acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.

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