Quotes
| "Happy is he who has lay up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passsionate love for reading." -- Rufus Choate |
| "Never judge a book by its movie." --W. Eagan |
| "Books are lighthouses erectred in the great sea of time." -- E.P. Whipple |
| "Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter." -- Paxton Hood |
| "When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes." -- Erasmus |
| The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that." -- McCosh |
| "A room without books is like a body without a soul." -- Cicero |
| "A great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty." -- Theodore Parker |
| "These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves." -- Gilbert Highet |
| "That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with delight and profit." -- A. B. Alcott |
| "The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it." -- Elizabeth Drew |
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