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- A book that is shut is but a block.
3.6 · 56 votes · 67 reads
- A book worth reading is worth buying.
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- A good poet's made as well as born.
3.7 · 10 votes · 124 reads
- A library implies an act of faith.
3.7 · 60 votes · 83 reads
- A multitude of books distracts the mind.
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- A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
5.0 · 39 votes · 159 reads
- A wicked book cannot repent.
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- All literature is gossip.
3.4 · 20 votes · 77 reads
- Beware of the person of one book.
Saint AugustineTheologianRoman354 · 4th century
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- Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas HobbesPhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century
3.5 · 12 votes · 169 reads
- Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.
Walt DisneyCartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century
4.3 · 46 votes · 53 reads
- Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.Montaigne
PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century
3.5 · 52 votes · 71 reads
- Every old poem is sacred.
4.7 · 38 votes · 127 reads
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