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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.
Written by Lily Tomlin
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Written by Joseph Addison
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
Written by John Burroughs
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
Written by Jerry Seinfeld
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
Written by Arthur Eddington
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Written by Henry Ward Beecher
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Written by Carl Sagan
I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
Written by Oscar Levant
I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.
Written by Steven Wright
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Written by Walt Whitman
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
Written by William Hazlitt
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
Written by E. M. Forster
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
Written by Bernard Williams
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Written by Mark Twain
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Written by Henry Ward Beecher
The wise man reads both books and life itself.
Written by Lin Yutang
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
Written by Sigmund Freud
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
Written by Heinrich Heine
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Written by Mark Twain
We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
Written by Dick Gregory
If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.
Written by Alan King
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Written by William Shakespeare
Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
Written by Dr. Seuss
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Written by Winston Churchill
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
Written by Jim Bishop
Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.
Written by Lionel Trilling
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Written by Barbara Tuchman
Books are humanity in print.
Written by Barbara Tuchman
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
Written by Gore Vidal

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