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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
View quotes by Henry David Thoreau

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
View quotes by Gilbert Highet

I take my books everywhere. Plane journeys are a good opportunity to study, or also when I'm having my hair done.
View quotes by Lily Cole

There were two things Janey Little loved best in the world: music and books, and not necessarily in that order.
View quotes by Charles De Lint

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
View quotes by Sigmund Freud

No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men
View quotes by John Alfred Langford

As life goes on, don't you find that all you need is about two real friends, a regular supply of books, and a Peke?
View quotes by P G Wodehouse

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.
View quotes by Esther Forbes

I think they thought it was very arrogant of me to write the end of my seven books series when I didn't have a publisher and no-one had heard of me
View quotes by J K Rowling

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
View quotes by Rene Descartes

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
View quotes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
View quotes by Edward Gibbon

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

View quotes by Samuel Butler

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
View quotes by Jim Bishop

Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?
View quotes by Thomas Traherne

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
View quotes by J P Getty

Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction
View quotes by Ben Jonson

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
View quotes by Mike Tyson

The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.
View quotes by Richard Wright

Let's tell young people the best books are yet to written: the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them [a nice and positive quote!]
View quotes by John Erskine

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