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Book Quotes by Holbrook Jackson
- The end of reading is not more books but more life.
- Books worth reading are worth re-reading.
- A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of…
- Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.
- Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.
- Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and how…
- Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.
- The newest books are those that never grow old.
- The better the book the more room for the reader.
- Great books conserve time.
- A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.
- Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.
- History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.
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