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Quotes
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This section provides a choice selection of quotes about books.
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Beware of the man of one book. ~ D'Islraeli
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Camerado, this is no book. Who touches this, touches a man. ~ Whitman
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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
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You do not publish your own verses, Laelius; you criticize mine. Pray cease to criticize mine, or else publish your own. ~ Martial, Roman author
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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
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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
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All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour, and the books of all time. ~ John Ruskin
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A book that furnishes no quotations is, me judice, no book -- it is a plaything. ~ Thomas Love Peacock
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