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title: "4 Book Learned Quotes by 4 authors"
description: "Browse 4 Book Learned quotes by 4 authors. Discover the best Book Learned sayings and thoughts."
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> [I am very bad at remembering the books I've read and so recently I had a wonderful experience. I decided I wanted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samantha-hunt/i-am-very-bad-at-remembering-the-books-i-ve-read-and-so-recently-i/)

[Samantha Hunt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samantha-hunt/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b5e/samantha-hunt-14215_book_i-am-very-bad-at-remembering-the-books-i_544748.png)

> [“Learning became her. She loved the smell of the books, the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-goolrick/learning-became-her-she-loved-the-smell-of-the-books-the-shelves-the/)

[Robert Goolrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-goolrick/)

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> [Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/hence-instead-of-man-thinking-we-have-the-bookworm-hence-the-book/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44e/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_book_hence-instead-of-man-thinking-we-have-th_1029535.jpg)

> [“Some lessons you learned by the book. Others you learned from cold hard experience. The latter may not be the best way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-banks/some-lessons-you-learned-by-the-book-others-you-learned-from-cold/)

[Maya Banks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-banks/)

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