When I get a little money, I buy books.
And if there is any left over, I buy food
- Erasmus
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man
who cannot read them
- Mark Twain
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The paperback is very interesting but I find
it will never replace the hardcover book
-- it makes a very poor doorstop
- Alfred Hitchcock
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Outside of a dog, a book is Man's best friend.
And inside of a dog, it's too dark to read
- Groucho Marx
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The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people
who write know anything
- Walter Bagehot
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A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it,
you can't expect an apostle to look out
- G. C. Lichtenberg
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A room without books is like
a body without a soul
- Cicero
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You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them
- Ray Bradbury
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A book should serve as an axe
for the frozen sea within us
- Kafka
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The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame
- Oscar Wilde
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This is not a book that should be tossed lightly aside. It should be hurled with great force
- Dorothy Parker
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I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book
- Groucho Marx
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I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it
- Lord Brabazon
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There is no such thing as a moral or an
immoral book. Books are well written
or badly written
- Oscar Wilde
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Never judge a book
by its movie
- J. W. Eagan
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Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either
- Gore Vidal
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When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me,
and it becomes part of me
- Somerset Maugham
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How many a man has dated a new era in his
life from the reading of a book
- Henry David Thoreau
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