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You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them
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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
View quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
View quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
View quotes by Samuel Johnson

When I am dead, I hope it may be said:
'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'
View quotes by Hilaire Belloc

The proper study of mankind is books (Crome Yellow)
View quotes by Aldous Huxley

An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children
View quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

My books need no one to accuse or judge you: the page which is yours stands up against you and says, 'You are a thief.'
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We turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record.
View quotes by Richard Curtis

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
View quotes by Walt Whitman

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll Le Corbusier go write four books about it.
View quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
View quotes by Katherine Mansfield

You do know I'm wanting to borrow books, not money or a key to a suite at the Cipriani?
View quotes by Lucy Mangan

Unlearned men of books assume the care,
As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair
View quotes by Edward Young

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
View quotes by John Burrough

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
View quotes by Tryon Edwards

I feel a certain sense of responsibility, so I'm pretty vague when I get to sorcery. [On his books]
View quotes by David Eddings

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
View quotes by John Denham

Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them.
View quotes by Norman Augustine

Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate
View quotes by Jesse Lee Bennett

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