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Books

«A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.»
«A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way»
«A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.»
«A room without books is like a body without a soul.»
«A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.»
«Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered, and in the air that had been the purest and brightest in the house an unbearable smell of rotten memories floated.»
«A home without books is a body without soul.»
«A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.»
«A man will turn over half a library to make one book»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Books | Keywords: library, turn over
«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.»

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