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[Quote No.3359] Need Area: Fun > Books
"As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
" - Arthur Schopenhauer
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[Quote No.3360] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Your library is your paradise." - Desiderius Erasmus
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[Quote No.3361] Need Area: Fun > Books
"A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
" - Norman Cousins
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[Quote No.3362] Need Area: Fun > Books
"With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.
" - Doris Lessing
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[Quote No.3363] Need Area: Fun > Books
"A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it." - Richard de Bury
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[Quote No.3364] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The time was when a library was very much like a museum, and a librarian was a mouser in musty books... The time is when a library is a school, and the librarian is the highest sense a teacher.
" - Melvil Dewey
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[Quote No.3365] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history." - Carl T. Rowan
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[Quote No.3366] Need Area: Fun > Books
"A library is thought in cold storage." - Herbert Samuel
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[Quote No.3367] Need Area: Fun > Books
"I go into my library and all history unrolls before me." - Alexander Smith
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[Quote No.3368] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Your library is your portrait." - Holbrook Jackson
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[Quote No.3369] Need Area: Fun > Books
"A great library contains the diary of the human race." - George Dawson
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[Quote No.3372] Need Area: Fun > Books
"I taught at Sandhurst, which is Britain's West Point, which has the most wonderful library. Its origins go back to the 18th century." - John Keegan
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[Quote No.3375] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Reading books has not changed; it is the same as it has always been, since Callimachus administered the great library in Alexandrea." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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[Quote No.3376] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book." - Samuel Johnson
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[Quote No.3385] Need Area: Fun > Books
"I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
" - Arthur Schopenhauer
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[Quote No.3396] Need Area: Fun > Books
"A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
" - Norman Cousins
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[Quote No.3405] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts in it. Anyone who can read, can learn to read deeply and thus live more fully.
" - Norman Cousins
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[Quote No.3410] Need Area: Fun > Books
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
" - Marcus Tullius Cicero
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[Quote No.3412] Need Area: Fun > Books
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
" - Jorge Luis Borges
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[Quote No.3418] Need Area: Fun > Books
"I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
" - H. P. Lovecraft
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[Quote No.3419] Need Area: Fun > Books
"I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home." - Tom Glazer
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[Quote No.3420] Need Area: Fun > Books
"My alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
" - Malcolm X
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[Quote No.3421] Need Area: Fun > Books
"During this time I discovered the Public Library in Germiston, one of the many libraries set up all over the world with funding from Andrew Carnegie's endowment.
" - Sydney Brenner
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[Quote No.3422] Need Area: Fun > Books
"It doesn't have to give itself up entirely on the first read. There should still be a variety of levels and multiplicity of meaning.
" - George Murray
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[Quote No.3464] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth." - Samuel Johnson
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[Quote No.3503] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
" - C. S. Lewis
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[Quote No.3504] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads." - Marianne Moore
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[Quote No.3526] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once." - Cyril Connolly
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[Quote No.3534] Need Area: Fun > Books
"I recommend the art of slow reading." - Amos Oz
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[Quote No.4237] Need Area: Fun > Books
"...we rely on works of fiction, in any medium, to help us understand the world and what it means to be human. " - Janet Murray
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[Quote No.4259] Need Area: Fun > Books
" 'Only a novel'... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language. " - Jane Austen
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[Quote No.25919] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Language is the inventory of human experience." - L. W. Lockhart
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[Quote No.4308] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. " - Marcel Proust
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[Quote No.4323] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend " - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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[Quote No.4481] Need Area: Fun > Books
"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. " - Benjamin Franklin
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[Quote No.4521] Need Area: Fun > Books
"A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67. [less can be more]" - Norman R. Augustine
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[Quote No.4544] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed " - Unknown
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[Quote No.4545] Need Area: Fun > Books
"It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. " - William Ellery Channing
(1780-1842), Transcendentalist poet
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[Quote No.4554] Need Area: Fun > Books
"A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. " - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[Quote No.5062] Need Area: Fun > Books
"A well composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter any other way. " - Caroline Gordon
1895-1981
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[Quote No.5068] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. " - Henry Ward Beecher
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[Quote No.5080] Need Area: Fun > Books
"A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. " - (Sarah) Margaret Fuller
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[Quote No.5111] Need Area: Fun > Books
"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is prose; words in their best order;-poetry; the best words in the best order. " - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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[Quote No.5113] Need Area: Fun > Books
"A home without books is a body without soul. " - Marcus Tullius Cicero
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[Quote No.5119] Need Area: Fun > Books
"A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. " - Chinese Proverb
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[Quote No.5120] Need Area: Fun > Books
"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors. " - Charles Baudelaire
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[Quote No.5203] Need Area: Fun > Books
"When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food. " - Deciderius Erasmus
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[Quote No.5284] Need Area: Fun > Books
"I was raised among books making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day. " - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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[Quote No.5309] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. " - Helen Adams Keller
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[Quote No.5432] Need Area: Fun > Books
"A book is a friend; a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still; and there are not many friends who know enough to do that. " - B. A. Billingsly
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