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Good Book Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the…
- A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.
- The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this…
- Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and…
- A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I must…
- A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I…
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- A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good… — Jim Bishop
- The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here… — Allan Bloom
- I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try… — Anthony Bourdain
- That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. — Amos Bronson Alcott
- A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in… — Oswald Chambers
- No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one. — Unknown Author
- A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever. — Louis L'Amour
- He who destroys a good book kills reason itself. — John Milton
- A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the… — Henry David Thoreau
- ...The God I know is one that promotes peace and freedom. But I get great sustenance from my personal relationship. That doesn't… — George W. Bush
- The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. — Walter Bagehot
- The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders… — Mark Twain