"I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil."
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"The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity."
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"A good book is the purest essence of a human soul."
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"Inspirational Quotes on: Honesty, Simplicity, Secret, Universe, Modesty, Peace Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."
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"As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer."
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"I need to see the original paintings just as little as I have to read the original manuscripts of books."
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"I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands."
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"(Joan,1941) She wrote me a letter asking,"How can I read it?,Its so hard." I told her to start at the beginning and read as far as you can get until you're lost. Then start again at the beginning and keep working through until you can understand the whole book. And thats what she did"
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"I don’t think books can change the world, but when the world begins to change, it searches for different books."
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"The book says we may be through with the past but the past ain't through with us."
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"When I was a kid, I was a bit of a space geek. I loved the space program and all things NASA. I would read books about our solar system; I had pictures of the Space Shuttle on my bedroom wall. And yes, I even went to Space Camp."
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"Look at the world of books nowadays. People just download books. They don't go to a bookstore. Amazon is wiping out Borders and Barnes and Noble. Those are brilliant examples of ephemeralization doing more with less at a better price."
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"When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress."
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"Daren Hardy's The Compound Effect is a culmination of success principles that is relevant to anyone who needs it! As a thought leader, he is making a significant contribution to our industry. A wonderful book!"
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"I hadn't had a book in my hands for four months, and the mere idea of a book where I could see words printed one after another, lines, pages, leaves, a book in which I could pursue new, different, fresh thoughts to divert me, could take them into my brain, had something both intoxicating and stupefying about it."
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"For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves to line them up on the shelf in multicoloured rows: he watches over each of them with an old-fashioned gardener's delight, holds them like fragile objects in his thin, bloodless hands."
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"I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in."
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"Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore!"
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"A novel is a mirror carried along a main road."
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"Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy."
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