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Books Quotes and Quotations
 Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.  Laws die, Books never. A book is the only immortality. Beware of the man of one book. Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from... human souls we never saw... And yet these arouse us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers. The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all. A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent. All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. - Voltaire Camerado, this is no book. Who touches this, touches a man. |
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