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Books Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce…
- We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.
- Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of…
- Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory…
- Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they…
- Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
- Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote…
- He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
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