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Books

«Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.»
«People buy books to own knowledge and have others see them as people of knowledge»
Author: Donna Pomona | About: Books, Knowledge
«No two persons ever read the same book.»
Author: Edmund Wilson | About: Books, Reading | Keywords: persons
«No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one»
«Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!»
Author: Ruth Gordon (Actress, Writer) | About: Books | Keywords: Pan, publish, this one
«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»
«Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and imagination laid up, from which lessons of infinite worth may be derived»
Author: Richard Whately | About: Books | Keywords: discourse, laid up, stores
«Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.»
«Never read any book that is not a year old»
«Only your friends steal your books»
Author: Voltaire (Philosopher, Writer) | About: Books | Keywords: books, steal