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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.”
Barbara W. Tuchman quotes (American popular historian and author, 1912-1989)
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“You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.”
Paul Sweeney quotes
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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero quotes (Ancient Roman Lawyer, Writer, Scholar, Orator and Statesman, 106 BC-43 BC)
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“When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.”
Desiderius Erasmus quotes (Dutch Priest, Humanist and Editor of the New Testament, 1469-1536)
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“No two persons ever read the same book.”
Edmund Wilson quotes
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“Books are a uniquely portable magic”
Stephen King quotes (American Writer, best known for his horror novels. b.1947)
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“A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
Garrison Keillor quotes (American writer and broadcaster b.1942)
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“The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.”
John Greenleaf Whittier quotes (American Writer, 1807-1892)
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“Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence”
Jan Morris quotes
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“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
Charles W. Eliot quotes (American University President of Harvard University for 40 years, 1834-1926)
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“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”
Francis Bacon, Sr. quotes (English Lawyer and Philosopher. 1561-1626)
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