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There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.
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'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem to be confidences or sides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profound t
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Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Marcus Tulius Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Marcus Tulius Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote thes
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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
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Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as
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Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.
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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
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All mankind loves a lover.
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