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Read as you
taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or
life.
-- Holbrook Jackson
The only
obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without
incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be
interesting.
-- Henry James
1843-1916, American Author
Books
constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house,
for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere
consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of
professional men, setting out in life, it is their only
capital.
-- Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of
the USA
I cannot live
without books.
-- Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of
the USA
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Books to
judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and
professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real
science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.
-- Johnson
Tradition is
but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled.
Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written
learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that
had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper
station. So books are faithful repositories, which may be
awhile neglected or forgotten, but when opened again, will
again impart instruction.
-- Johnson
A man ought to
read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as
a task will do him little good.
-- Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author
Books that you
carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most
useful after all.
-- Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author
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