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Book Quotes by Joseph Joubert
- Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
- We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
- Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a…
- There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
- The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach…
- The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
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