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funny book sayings 2010 05 11 p9


I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.

It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing-school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion of our humanity. It is books that bear from age to age the intellectual wealth of the world.

I myself spent hours in the Columbia library as intimidated and embarrassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream restaurant where every dish from all of the world's cuisines, past and present, was available on request.

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.


The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.


In reading, as in eating, an appetite is half the feast.


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