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Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

A home without books is a body without soul.

The world was never the same again after the arrival of a good book.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.