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• Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to… — Bernard Baruch
• Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic… — Gerald Durrell
• It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever… — Amelia B. Edwards
• Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We… — C.S. Lewis
• Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple… — Gaston Bachelard
• The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done… — C.S. Lewis
• I love to both give and receive very old books. — Augusten Burroughs
• As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of… — Christopher Paul Curtis
• We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The… — C.S. Lewis
• I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. — Oliver Goldsmith
• Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to… — Marilynne Robinson
• In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar. — Anne Fadiman

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