"After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books."

Carlyle, Thomas on Books - Reading
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"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn."

Addison, Joseph on Books - Reading
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"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are."

Twain, Mark on Friends and Friendship
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"My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity."

Malcolm X on Libraries
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"I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book."

Marx, Groucho on Television
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"Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Books - Reading
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"Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books."

Colton, Charles Caleb on Books - Reading
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"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read."

Lincoln, Abraham on Books - Reading
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"Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing."

Mailer, Norman on Writers and Writing
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"Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time."

Whipple, Edwin P. on Books - Reading
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"No furniture is so charming as books."

Smith, Sydney on Books - Reading
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"I cannot live without books."

Jefferson, Thomas on Books - Reading
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"Everything in the world exists to end up in a book."

Mallarme, Stephane on Books - Reading
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"Books succeed, and lives fail."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on Books - Reading
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"The true university of these days is a collection of books."

Carlyle, Thomas on Libraries
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"There is no friend as loyal as a book"

Hemingway, Ernest on Friends and Friendship
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"For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives."

Lowell, Amy on Books - Reading
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"Beware of the person of one book."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on Books - Reading
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