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His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of his father. Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library of sixty-two…

— Edward Gibbon

Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries

— Edgar Allan Poe

“He saw a square room furnished as a library. The entire section of the walls which he could spy was covered from floor to…

— James Stephens

“...the perusal of all excellent books is, as it were, to interview with the noblest men of past ages, who have written them.”

— René Descartes

“Whatever reader desires to have a thorough comprehension of an author's thoughts cannot take a better method than by putting himself into the circumstances…

— Jonathan Swift

“Take heed also what books ye read; for as water relisheth of the soil it runs through, so doth the soul of the authors…

— John Trapp

His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

— Laura Hillenbrand

“Then there were his education and his reading, the books he bought and borrowed, his knowledge of things that could not be eaten or…

— John Steinbeck

“He bethought him with pride that he had always been called a scholar, and sneered at for his love of solitude and books. He…

— Virginia Woolf

“He walked among the bookstore shelves, hearing Muzak in the air. There were rows of handsome covers, prosperous and assured. He felt a fine…

— Don DeLillo

“We have then, in the first part of The Faerie Queene, four of the seven deadly sins depicted in the more important passages of…

— Janet Spens

A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think.

— Emily Dickinson