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Ideally a book
would have no order to it, and the reader would have to
discover his own.
-- Raoul Vaneigem
1934-, Belgian Situationist
Philosopher
All the known
world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
-- Voltaire
1694-1778, French Historian,
Writer
It is far
better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of
bad books.
-- Voltaire
1694-1778, French Historian,
Writer
The books we
think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books
that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books
that people talk about we never can recall; And the books
that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.
-- Carolyn Wells
1870-1942, American Author
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Beware you be
not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound
of knowledge.
-- John Wesley
1703-1791, British Preacher,
Founder of Methodism
Fiction
reveals truth that reality obscures.
-- Jessamyn West
1903-1984, American Author
Books are
lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
-- Edwin P. Whipple
1819-1886, American Essayist
Camerado! This
is no book; who touches this touches a man.
-- Walt Whitman
1819-1892, American Poet
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