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Books are but stepping stones to show you where other minds have been.
John Muir
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Books are not like people. Books are safe.
Kathryn Erskine
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Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.
Lloyd Alexander
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Books are the basis purity is the force preaching is the essence utility is the principle.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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Books make great gifts because... [they don't] come in any particular size, so you don't have to be embarrassed if you bought somebody the wrong size.
Valerie Bertinelli
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Books were put out, and 'had a run,' / Like coinage from the mint / But which could fill the place of one, / That one they wouldn't print?
Phoebe Cary
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Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble.
William Drummond
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.
Abraham Cowley
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Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.
Tahereh Mafi
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Abraham Lincoln
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Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while.
Amy Harmon
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Books and beer are the best and worst defense.
Sherman Alexie
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Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.
Lord Byron
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Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.
Tamora Pierce
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Books are true levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.
William Ellery Channing
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Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.
Plato
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Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.
Umberto Eco
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Books are a habit-forming drug.
Agatha Christie
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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
Agnes Repplier
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Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
E. B. White
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Books are challenging and inspirational to me.
Amy Sedaris
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Books are, at their heart, dangerous. Yes, dangerous. Because they challenge us: our prejudices, our blind spots. They open us to new ideas, new ways of seeing. They make us hurt in all the right ways. They can push down the barricades of ‘them’ & widen the circle of ‘us.
Libba Bray
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Books were my passion and my escape from madness.
Dorothea Benton Frank
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Books tell you more about their owners than the owners do.
A.M. Homes
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