All that mankind has done, though, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.- Thomas Carlyle
I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now -- only that place where the books are kept.- John Steinbeck
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters.- Ross MacDonald
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.- Logan Pearsall Smith
If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.- Thomas Hobbes
The great objection to new books is that they prevent our reading old ones. - Joseph Joubert
If we encounter a man of great intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Choose an author as you would a friend.- Wentworth Dillon
It is with books as it is with men -- a very small number play a great part; the rest are lost in the multitude. - Voltaire
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