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Never memorize what you can look up in a book.

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You'll never be alone if you’ve got a book.

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By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.

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A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

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I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.

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If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

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But if you miss it, you will next be confronted with the angry deities, ... threatening you and barring your passage ... because you turned a deaf ear to the saving truths of religion. All these forms are strange to you, ... they terrify you, ... and yet it is you who have created them. Do not give in to your fright, ... flee them not! They are but ... the contents of your own mind... If at this point you should manage to understand that, ... and you will find yourself in a paradise among the angels.

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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

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It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

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I am not a book collector, and I am not fussy about particular editions. As long as the words are there I don't mind.

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Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.

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I also like some of Joel Osteen's work. I think he's now doing a book about one of my favorite sermons of his, "The Power of 'I Am.' " I just love that sermon.

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The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

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We are sensitized by the books we read. And the more books we read, and the deeper their lessons sink into us, the more pairs of glasses we have. And those glasses enable us to see things we would have otherwise missed.

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Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.

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In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

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In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.

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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

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