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Charles Caleb Colson: “Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.”

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Walt Whitman: “A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.”

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Thomas Jefferson: “Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. ”

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Lillian Hellman: “What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.”

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Heinrich Heine: “Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.”

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Henry Ward Beecher: “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore!”

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Mortimer Adler: “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.”

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William Osler: “It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.”

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Heinrich Heine: “I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.”

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Arnold Lobel: “Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”

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Rose Macaulay: “Only one hour in a day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.”

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Anna Garlin Spencer: “The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else. ”

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bell hooks: “Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.”

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Mortimer Adler: “If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.”

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Aldous Huxley: “A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. ”

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John Ruskin: “All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.”

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John Ruskin: “A book worth reading is worth buying.”

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Georg C. Lichtenberg: “A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.”

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T. S. Eliot: “And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. ”

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Nick Bantock: “Our house was a temple to The Book. We owned thousands, nay millions of books. They lined the walls, filled the cupboards, and turned the floor into a maze far more complex than Hampton Court's. Books ruled our lives. They were our demigods.”

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Albert Camus: “After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.”

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Denise Levertov: “I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and individuals, although they are part of large economic and social processes, influence history. Every mass is after all made up of millions of individuals.”

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Henry Miller: “A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum -- of both books and money! But especially books, for books represent infinitely more than money. A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.”

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Francis Bacon: “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed on and digested.”

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Bertrand Russell: “There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”

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Rebbe Nachman of Breslov: “Whoever is able to write a book and does not, it is as if he has lost a child.”

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Oscar Wilde: “The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.”

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WIlliam Ellery Channing: “Nothing can supply the place of books. They are cheering or soothing companions in solitude, illness, affliction. The wealth of both continents would not compensate for the good they impart.”

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Margaret Fuller: “A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.”

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Norman Cousins: “A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas -- a place where history comes to life.”

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