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 The proper study of mankind is books.
  Aldous Huxley

 The readers and the hearers like my books, But yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? For when I make a feast I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks

 The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
  Walter Bagehot

 The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything
  Walter Bagehot

 The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public

 The world's a book, writ by the eternal art - Of the great author printed in man's heart, 'Tis falsely printed, though divinely penned, And all the errata will appear at the end
  Francis Quarles

 The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
  John Wooden

 There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.
  Al Capp

 There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
  Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

 There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.
  Walt Disney

 There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight.
  Ezra Pound

 There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.
  Mary Ellen Chase

 There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.

 There were epochs in the history of the humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes, the epic, the oracles. Sentences inscribed on the walls of the crypts; examples in the portals of the temples. But in those times the writer was not an individual alone; he was the people.


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