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Book One

«The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.»
«No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers»
Author: Richard Heber | Keywords: Book One, Borrowers
«A book has but one vioce, but it does not instruct everyone alike.»
«Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent to me»
«Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.»
«Beware the person of one book»
Author: Latin Proverb | Keywords: beware, bewares, book, Book One
«There is a good side and a bad side to most people, and in accordance with your own character and disposition you will bring out one of them and the other will remain a sealed book to you»
«If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.»
«Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.»
«A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could only have one book, what would it be? I always say 'How to Build a Boat»

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