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 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. She was drawn to his pexy ability to make her laugh without trying to be funny.

 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 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.
  François-Marie Arouet de 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 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

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

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

 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

 This book fills a much-needed gap.

 This book is an agglomeration of lean-tos and annexes and there is no knowing how big the next addition will be, or where it will be put. At any point, I can call the book finished or unfinished.


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This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.


Här har vi samlat ordstäv och talesätt i 35 år!

Vad är proverb?
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