"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"

Beecher, Henry Ward on Books - Reading
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"Books succeed, and lives fail."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on Books - Reading
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"Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, --where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!"

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on Books - Reading
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"Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life."

Adler, Mortimer J. on Books - Reading
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"In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you."

Adler, Mortimer J. on Books - Reading
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"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."

Franklin, Benjamin on Unity
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Santayana, George on Past
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