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 The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
  Oscar Wilde

 The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
  Oscar Wilde

 The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.
  Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

 The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time

 The comic book [is] the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids and a threat to the future.

 The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
  Walt Whitman

 The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

 The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

 The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one
  Oliver Goldsmith

 The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
  Voltaire

 The megaselling books by celebrities are not so much books as products.

 The newest books are those that never grow old.
  Logan Pearsall Smith

 The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
  E. M. Forster

 The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
  John Steinbeck

 The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson


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