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Books Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg
- If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.
- I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that,…
- A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.
- A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
- Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is…
- A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas…
- I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
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