Mark Twain Quotes, Book Quotes, Interesting Quotes

There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

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So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

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Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed.

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But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong.

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I don't choose. Normally it's the book that chooses me.

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In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.

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You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures cunningly inset. But nowadays, instead of looking at books, people read them. A book might as well be one of those orders for bacon and bran.

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Every person is a book, each year a chapter.

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I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

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I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

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What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

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Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?

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A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.

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I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves they got up this entire little flutter to enable them to unload a book that was taking too much room in their cellars, but you can never tell what a publisher will do. I have been one myself.

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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

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Books are the best type of the influence of the past.

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The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.

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