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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.

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So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout the book of Doublends Jined.

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We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

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I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.

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A man is known by the books he reads.

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It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again.

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I am never indifferent, and never pretend to be, to what people say or think of my books. They are my children, and I like to have them liked.

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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

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Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

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Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.

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The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Life Quotes , Book Quotes

I do not see how astronomers can help feeling exquisitely insignificant, for every new page of the Book of the Heavens they open reveals to them more and more that the world we are so proud of is to the universe of careening globes as is one mosquito to the winged and hoofed flocks and herds that darken the air and populate the plains and forests of all the earth. If you killed the mosquito would it be missed? Verily, What is Man, that he should be considered of God?

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Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

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I interviewed - no - had lunch with Harper Lee several years ago, trying to convince Harper Lee to do "To Kill a Mockingbird" for the book club. She wouldn't do it. She said, "Honey, I said everything I wanted to say."

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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

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I would like [the working man] to give me back books and newspapers and theories. And I would like to give him back, in return, his old insouciance, and rich, original spontaneity and fullness of life.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Book Quotes , Men Quotes

More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

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Learn the words of wisdom uttered by the wise and apply them in your own life. Live them - but do not a make a show of reciting them, for he who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass loaded with books.

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