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Digressions,
incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul
of reading! Take them out of this book, for instance, --you
might as well take the book along with them; --one cold
external winter would reign in every page of it; restore
them to the writer; --he steps forth like a bridegroom,
--bids All-hail; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite
to fail.
-- Laurence Sterne
1713-1768, British Author
Books are good
enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless
substitute for life.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist,
Poet, Novelist
Why pay a
dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a
bookmark?
-- Fred Stoller
A great book
should leave you with many experiences and slightly
exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while
reading it.
-- William Styron
1925-, American Novelist
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Most books,
like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can
it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live,
and their influence lives forever.
-- J. Swartz
Who ever
converses among old books will be hard to please among the
new.
-- Sir William Temple
1628-1699, British Diplomat,
Essayist
Books, like
proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and
esteem of the ages through which they have passed
-- Sir William Temple
1628-1699, British Diplomat,
Essayist
What is a
diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps
it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to
the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
-- Helen Terry
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