“ In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. ”
- Mortimer J. Adler- Copy
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“ I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me. ”
- Charles Lamb- Copy
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“ I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our own particular path than we have yet got ourselves. ”
- E. M. Forster- Copy
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“ Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. ”
- Clifton Fadiman- Copy
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“ Thank you for sending me a copy of your book — I'll waste no time reading it. ”
- Moses Hadas- Copy
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“ Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read. ”
- Owen Meredith- Copy
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“ That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. ”
- Amos Bronson Alcott- Copy
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“ That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. ”
- Amos Bronson Alcott- Copy
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“ It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them. ”
- William Osler- Copy
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“ That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit. ”
- Amos Bronson Alcott- Copy
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“ A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. ”
- Sir Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed… ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ If you look at the opportunities for economic growth within America, inner-city areas and rural areas, especially those that are heavily minority populated are a great opportunity for economic growth, because unemployment is high and the potential for consumer demand to grow is enormous… ”
- Bill Clinton- Copy
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“ Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work. ”
- Beryl Markham- Copy
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“ I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work. ”
- Neil Armstrong- Copy
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“ A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. ”
- Salman Rushdie- Copy
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