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Happy is he
who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune,
a genuine and passionate love for reading.
-- Rufus Choate
1799-1859, American Lawyer,
Statesman
A room without
books is like a body without a soul.
-- Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman
Orator, Politician
Many books
require no thought from those who read them, and for a very
simple reason: they made no such demand upon those who wrote
them. Those works, therefore, are the most valuable, that
set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation.
understand them.
-- Clarendon
Perhaps there
are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your
everlasting readers.
-- William Cobbett
1762-1835, British
Journalist, Reformer
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Books are but
waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from
thought -- asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may
repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride,
or design in their conversation.
-- Jeremy Collier
1650-1726, British Clergyman,
Conjuror
Books, like
friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too,
we should return to them again and again for, like true
friends, they will never fail us -- never cease to instruct
-- never cloy.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
1780-1832, British Sportsman
Writer
Next to
acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good
books.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
1780-1832, British Sportsman
Writer
A person of
mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing
from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past
ideas, may find satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to
occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious
students are not content with it. They seek the excitement
because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies.
-- Charles Horton Cooley
1864-1929, American
Sociologist
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