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«Books are humanity in print.»
«Books are a narcotic»
Author: Franz Kafka (Writer) | About: Books | Keywords: books, narcotic, narcotics
«A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.»
«A room without books is like a body without a soul.»
«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.»
«Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all»
«After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.»
«A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study of books»
«Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.»
«Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.»

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