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The most
foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of
wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author,
Wit, Poet
Old books, you
know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are
the fruits of its age.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author,
Wit, Poet
The best of a
book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought
which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in
the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author,
Wit, Poet
The books we
read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as
an Egyptian king wrote over his library, ''The medicines of
the soul.''
-- Paxton Hood
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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
My books kept
me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.
-- Thomas Hood
1799-1845, British Poet and
Humorist
A book might
be written on the injustice of the just.
-- Anthony Hope
1863-1933, British Writer
Books in a
large university library system: 2, 000,000. Books in an
average large city library: 1 0,000. Average number of books
in a chain bookstore: 30, 000. Books in an average
neighborhood branch library: 20, 000.
-- Lois Horowitz
American Librarian
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