Books Quotes

• "A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas—a place where history comes to life."
  By: Norman Cousins
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• "A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools."
  By: Thomas Jefferson
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• "It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds... In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most previous thought, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books."
  By: William Ellery Channing
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• "All books are either dreams or swords, You can cut, or you can drug, with words."
  By: Amy Lowell
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• "The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty."
  By: Theodore Parker
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• "Our house was a temple to The Book. We owned thousands, nay millions of books. They lined the walls, filled the cupboards, and turned the floor into a maze far more complex than Hampton Court's. Books ruled our lives. They were our demigods."
  By: Nick Bantock
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• "I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books."
  By: Ann Richards
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• "I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read about the effects of smoking that he gave up reading."
  By: Henry G. Strauss
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• "For books are more than books, they are the life The very heart and core of ages past, The reason why men lived and worked and died, The essence and quintessence of their lives."
  By: Amy Lowell
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• "Readers are plentiful, thinkers are rare."
  By: Harriet Martineau
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• "The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you the knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination."
  By: Elizabeth Hardwick
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• "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed on and digested."
  By: Francis Bacon
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• "A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body."
  By: Margaret Fuller
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• "There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away."
  By: Emily Dickinson
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• "A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you."
  By: Daniel J. Boorstein
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