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wise books The writings of the wise are the only riches that our posterity cannot squander. ~ Landor


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the best books Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ~ Bacon


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Beware of the man of one book. Beware of the man of one book. ~ D'Islraeli


this is no book. Who touches this, touches a man Camerado, this is no book. Who touches this, touches a man. ~ Whitman


he who destroys a good book kills reason itself Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. ~ John Milton John Bilton Information at Luminarium.org


critics You do not publish your own verses, Laelius; you criticize mine. Pray cease to criticize mine, or else publish your own. ~ Martial, Roman author


primitive literature The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. ~ Stephen Leacock, Homer and Humbug


books are not like children Books are not made like children but like pyramids ... and they are just as useless! and they stay in the desert! ... Jackals piss at their foot and the bourgeois climb up on them. ~ Gustave Flaubert


immortal books All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour, and the books of all time. ~ John Ruskin




quotable books A book that furnishes no quotations is, me judice, no book -- it is a plaything. ~ Thomas Love Peacock


Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. - Robert Louis Setevenson (Robert Louis Stevenson on the Web)

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