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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its destined reader, come when he may, with eager hand and seeing eye. Then occurs one of the great examples of union, that of a man with

Lawrence Clark Powell

A book is the only immortality.

Rufus Choate (1799-1859)

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

Charles Lamb (1775-1834)

A book unlike a television program, moving picture or any other "modern means of communication" can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.

Joseph Wood Krutch (1893-1970)

A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three

Italian Proverb

A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond

John Milton (1608-1674)

A good book praises itself

German Proverb

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

William Styron (1925-)

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

William Styron (1925-)

A home without books is a body without soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC-43 BC)

A man will turn over half a library to make one book

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

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