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- Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that…
- What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.
- Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.
- A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes,…
- We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred…
- We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.
- Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion,…
- Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a…
- Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question…
- It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully…
- The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.
- The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.
- Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
- The virtue of books is to be readable.
- I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use…
- In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence,…
- I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human…
- Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the…
- Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better…
- Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
- History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by language…
- In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.
- Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.
- We expect a great man to be a good reader.
- The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . . . They look…
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