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A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

Brendan Francis

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC-43 BC)

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Robertson Davies (1913-1995)

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way

Caroline Gordon (1895-)

According to New York publishers, Bill Clinton will get more money for his book than Hillary Clinton got for hers. Well, duh. At least his book has some sex in it.

Jay Leno (1950-)

All books are either dreams or swords,You can cut, or you can drug, with words.

Amy Lowell (1874-1925)

All books are either dreams or swords,You can cut, or you can drug, with words.

Amy Lowell (1874-1925)

All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder.
For filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder.
When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.
I could tell you things about Peter Pan,
And the Wizard of OZ, there's a dirty old man!

Tom Lehrer (1928-)

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse,

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

Anybody who doesn't like this book is healthy

Groucho Marx (1890-1977)

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favorites

John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton (1834-1902)

Beware the man of one book.

St. Thomas Aquinas

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