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“Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.”
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“Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.”
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“A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement. ”
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“History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.”
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“Your library is your portrait.”
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“The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practised at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.”
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“Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.”
― The Anatomy of Bibliomania
― The Anatomy of Bibliomania
“What is more useless than the popular novel that has passed its boom!”
― The Printing of Books
― The Printing of Books
“Genius is initiative on fire.”
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“the end of reading is not more books but more life ”
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“If we are imprisoned in ourselves, books provide us with the means of escape. If we have run too far away from ourselves, books show us the way back.”
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“Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.”
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“Intuition is reason in a hurry”
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“The better the book the more room for the reader.”
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