“ Look before, or you'll find yourself behind. Bad Commentators spoil the best of Books, So God sends meat (they say) the devil Cooks. ” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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“ Pollio, who values nothing that's within, Buys Books as men hunt Beavers, -- for their Skin. ” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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“ Read much, but not many Books. ” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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“ It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, Books, or a particular dish for dinner. ” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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“ So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, Books, or a particular dish for dinner. ” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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“ Books succeed, and lives fail. ” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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“ Many a fervid man writes Books as cold and flat as graveyard stones. ” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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“ No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good Books. ” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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“ As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those Books belonged to her. ” ~ Erma Bombeck
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“ One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom such as a solitude without friends, Books, duties, passions must bring with it those quarterhours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain. ” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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“ . . . finally, I couldn't imagine how I could live without Books, and I stopped dreaming about marrying that Chinese prince. . . . ” ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“ Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any Books except the Books that nobody reads. ” ~ George Bernard Shaw
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“ Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any Books except the Books nobody reads. ” ~ George Bernard Shaw
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“ Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and Books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with. ” ~ George Bernard Shaw
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“ Only in Books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty. ” ~ George Bernard Shaw
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“ People get nothing out of Books but what they bring to them. ” ~ George Bernard Shaw
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“ There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read Books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains. ” ~ George Bernard Shaw
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“ Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of Books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love. ” ~ George Eliot
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“ Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans which is nourished on Books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi. ” ~ George Eliot
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“ Books are the carriers of civilization. Without Books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. ” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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