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There are
worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading
them.
-- Joseph Brodsky
1940-, Russian-born American
Poet, Critic
A book may be
compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too
long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
-- Rupert Brooke
1887-1915, British Poet
The lessons
taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life
is rarely so simple and never so just.
-- Anita Brookner
1938-, British Novelist, Art
Historian
It is well to
read everything of something, and something of everything.
-- Lord Henry P. Brougham
1778-1868, Scottish Whig
Politician
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Begin to read
a book that will help you move toward your dream.
-- Les Brown
1945-, American Speaker,
Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer
Books succeed,
and lives fail.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861, British Poet
Books, books,
books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with
cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large,
--where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my
past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a
mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box,
pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste,
victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat
under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the
sun would let me read! My books!
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861, British Poet
When a book
raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly
thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is
good, and made by a good workman.
-- Jean De La Bruyère
1645-1696, French Classical
Writer
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