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Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.