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“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.”
― Amanda Cross

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“You cannot open a book without learning something.”
― Confucius