His Library Quotes
18 quotes by 16 authors
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The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.
— William Penn
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You can judge a man by the books in his library.
— Mark Skousen
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My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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'Children, don't speak so coarsely,' said Mr Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters' speech, and that…
— Robertson Davies
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The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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For books [Charles Darwin] had no respect, but merely considered them as tools to be worked with. ... he would cut a heavy book in…
— Francis Darwin
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A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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I don't know if you know it, J.B., but you're the sort of fellow who causes hundreds to fall under suspicion when he's found stabbed…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull…
— Ray Bradbury
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Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a book…
— John Kennedy Toole
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A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.
— Rex Stout
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The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicero's life. It is difficult to name anything in which he…
— Stacy Schiff
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My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
— Alan Garner
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When I was little, I wanted to be a doctor. I was really interested in gore. My grandfather was an orthopedic surgeon and he had…
— Jennifer Egan
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I heard his library burned down and that both books were destroyed-and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.
— John Dawkins
Who Wrote These His Library Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 18 His Library Quotes as follows: