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    A good book on your shelf is a

    friend that turns its back on you and


    remains a friend.
    Author Unknown

    The worth of a book is to be


    measured
    by what you can carry
    away from it.
    James Bryce

    Anyone who says they have


    only one life to live
    must not know how to read a
    book.
    ~Author Unknown

    If there's a book you really want to read


    but it hasn't been written yet, then you
    must
    write it. ~Toni Morrison
    Always read something that will
    make
    you look good if you die in the
    middle of it. ~P.J. O'Rourke

    Outside of a dog, a book is


    man's best
    friend. Inside of a dog it's
    too dark to read. ~Groucho Marx

    Books serve to show a man that


    those
    original thoughts of his aren't
    very new after all.
    ~Abraham Lincoln

    People say that life is the thing,


    but I prefer reading. ~Logan
    Pearsall Smith,
    Books - the best
    antidote against the marsh-gas of
    boredom and vacuity.
    ~George Steiner

    Books are the bees which carry the


    quickening pollen from one to
    another mind. ~James Russell Lowell

    Books can be dangerous. The best


    ones
    should be labeled "This
    could change your life." ~Helen
    Exley

    Good friends, good books and a


    sleepy conscience: this is the ideal
    life.
    ~Mark Twain
    A book is to me like a
    hat or coat - a very
    uncomfortable thing until
    the newness has been worn off.
    ~Charles B. Fairbanks

    Books are the glass of


    council to dress ourselves by.
    ~Bulstrode Whitlock

    Books are not made for


    furniture, but there is
    nothing else that so
    beautifully furnishes a house.
    ~Henry Ward Beecher

    No man can be called friendless


    who has
    God and the companionship of good
    books.
    ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Books are lighthouses


    erected in the great sea of time.
    ~E.P. Whipple

    Nothing is worth reading


    that does not require
    and alert mind. ~Charles
    Dudley Warner

    Nothing is worth reading


    that does not require
    and alert mind. ~Charles
    Dudley Warner

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