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A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

~ Martin Tupper

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.” ~ Mark Twain

“A book is a gift you can open again and again.”

~ Garrison Keillor

“Be careful about reading health books.

You may die of a misprint.”

~ Mark Twain

“We shouldn’t

teach great books; we

should teach a love of reading.”

~ B. F. Skinner

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all”

~ Abraham Lincoln

“The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show

the world its own shame.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.”

~ Theodore Parker

“He that love the a book will never

want for a faithful friend, a

wholesome counselor, a

cheerful companion, an

effectual comforter”

~ Isaac Barrow

“My test of a good novel is dreading to

begin the last chapter.”

~ Thomas Helm

“Books are humanity in print.” ~ Barbara W. Tuchman

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and

the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”

~ Henry David Thoreau

“’Classic.’ A book which people praise and don’t read.

~ Mark Twain

“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I

aim's read. ~ Abraham Lincoln

“Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would

have to discover his own. ~ Mark Twain

“You cannot open a book

without learning

something” ~ Confucius

“The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and

neglect most.” ~ Confucius

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and

over again, there is no use in

reading it at all.” ~ Oscar Wilde

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well

written, or badly written.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”

~ Thomas Jefferson

“I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the

sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal

inquiry too.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

“Books constitute capital. A library

book lasts as long as a house, for

hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere

consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the

case of professional men, setting out in life,

it is their only capital.”

~ Thomas Jefferson

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