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"No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books."	Elizabeth Barret Browning
"The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it."	James Bryce
"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."	John Burroughs
"What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books."	Thomas Carlyle
"Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books!"	Thomas Carlyle
"The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use?"	Dale Carnegie
"'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'"	Lewis Carroll
"There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters."	Miguel de Cervantes
"Most of today's books have an air of having been written in one day from books read the night before."	Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
"Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them."	Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
"The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."	Marcus Tullius Cicero
"A home without books is a body without soul."	Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Each time we re-read a book we get more out of it because we put more into it; a different person is reading it, and therefore it is a different book."	Muriel Clark
"Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now."	Jerry Coleman
"The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them."	Jackie Collins
"Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin."	Quentin Crisp
"A good book has no ending."	R. D. Cumming
"Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other people."	Thomas Davidson
"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."	Robertson Davies
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