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Books are the quietest and most
constant of friends; they are the most
accessible and wisest of
counselors, and the most patient of
teachers. Charles W. Eliot
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. Chinese Proverb
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Let books be your dining table,And you shall be
full of delightsLet them be your
mattressAnd you shall sleep restful
nights.Author Unknown
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TV. If kids are entertained by
two letters, imagine the fun they'll have with
twenty-six. Open your
child's imagination. Open a book.
Author Unknown
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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and
hold intimate converse with men
of unseen generations - such
is a pleasure beyond compare.
Kenko Yoshida
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For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor
dissemble. Francis Bacon
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A blessed companion is a book, - a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend,... a book that,
at a touch, pours its heart into our own. Douglas Jerrold
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Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes
that day happier.Kathleen Norris
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Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have
prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. Jesse Lee Bennett
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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.
Albert Camus
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Books are the carriers of civilization.
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb,
science crippled, thought and
speculation at a standstill.
Barbara Tuchman
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A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on
purpose for a life beyond.John Milton
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Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that
God has prepared for His creatures.Anthony Trollope
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Everywhere I have sought rest and not
found it, except sitting
in a corner by myself
with a little book.
Thomas p Kempis
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The books we read should be
chosen with great care, that they may be, as
an Egyptian king wrote over his library, ''The
medicines of the soul.''
Paxton Hood
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‘Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.’
Sir Francis Bacon
The End
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