| I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil. -- Voltaire |
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VoltaireEra:
1694 |
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| I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too. -- Thomas Jefferson |
| Author:
Jefferson, ThomasEra:
1743 |
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| A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and forever. -- Tupper |
| Author:
TupperEra:
1810 |
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| I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| Author:
Goethe, Johann VonEra:
1749 |
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| ...The eternal vital power builds them in the likeness of older worlds, placing them on the Imperishable Centres. How does he build them? He collects the fiery dust. He makes balls of fire, runs through them, and round them, infusing life there into, then sets them into motion; some one way, some the other way. They are cold, he makes them hot. They are dry, he makes them moist. They shine, he fans and cools them. Thus he acts from one twilight to the other, during Seven Eternities. -- book of Dzyan |
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Book of DzyanEra:
-3000 |
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| The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say. -- Mark Twain |
| Author:
Twain, MarkEra:
1835 |
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| Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. -- George Bernard Shaw |
| Author:
Shaw, George BernardEra:
1856 |
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| A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. -- John Milton |
| Author:
Milton, JohnEra:
1608 |
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| Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. -- Francis Bacon |
| Author:
Bacon, FrancisEra:
1561 |
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| There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books. -- Henry Ward Beecher |
| Author:
Beecher, Henry WardEra:
1813 |
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| Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton |
| Author:
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward RobertEra:
1803 |
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| The multitude of books is making us ignorant. -- Voltaire |
| Author:
VoltaireEra:
1694 |
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