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- Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to… — Joseph Addison
- Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very… — Jan Morris
- Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there… — Robertson Davies
- I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a… — Jackie Collins
- In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent. — George Gissing
- It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Books have always a secret influence on the understanding. — Samuel Johnson
- The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries. — Isaac Barrow
- Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients. — Samuel Johnson
- I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow