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Book Quotes by Christopher Morley
- When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole…
- The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
- There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
- When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole…
- That's what this country needs -- more books!
- Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes…
- The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive:…
- Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a…
- There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.
- A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the…
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