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I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so t...more

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In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even openin...more

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If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

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The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me wi...more

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A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat a...more

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Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

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Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attemptin...more

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When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved...more