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“If you want to really know something you have to observe or experience it in person; if you claim to know something on the basis of hearsay, or on happening to see it in a book, you'll be a laughingstock to those who really know.”

Book:Emperor of China: Self-portrait of K'ang-Hsi: Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi

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“There was a time in the ancient world - a very long time - in which the central cultural problem must have seemed an inexhaustible outpouring of books. Where to put them all? How to organize them on the groaning shelves? How to hold the profusion of knowledge in one's head? The loss of this plenitude would have been virtually inconceivable to anyone living in its midst. Then, not all at once but with the cumulative force of a mass extinction, the whole enterprise came to an end. What looked stable turned out to be fragile, and what had seemed for all time was only for the time being.”

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Book:The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

Source: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

“Some men," Flamel irresistibly added, "think of books merely as tools, others as tooling. I'm between the two; there are days when I use them as scenery, other days when I want them as society; so that, as you see, my library represents a makeshift compromise between looks and brains, and the collectors look down on me almost as much as the students.”

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Book:The Touchstone

Source: The Touchstone

“You'll grow devilish fat upon this paper-diet!”

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Author:William Congreve

“But really it says everything that’s wrong about the publishing industry, that a quarter of a million people bought and read a sex and shopping novel that wasn’t even written by one of those footballer girlfriends, and yet most of the shortlisted titles on the Orange Prize, which is an award for women writers, don’t even sell ten thousand copies. It’s just not right.”

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Book:You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

Source: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

“Do not give up on your vision just because victory seems far. Victory always comes when you are just about to give up.”

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Book:A Manual for Victory

Source: A Manual for Victory

“In fact, when I finally shuffle off this mortal coil, you will have to pry a book out of my cold, dead hands.”

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Author:Michael Cart

“Everybody in the world ought to care for books, and if there are some who do not, why that is a perfectly convincing reason why books ought to be given to them, to be a rebuke to them and, perchance, to rescue them from the error of their ways.”

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Author:Willis Johnson

“Use more caution the next time you make a reading selection. Books, you know, are a lot like people, and each and every one of us is ultimately judged by the company we keep”

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Book:Aesop Revisited: Book 1

Source: Aesop Revisited: Book 1

“I've always believed in spreading the gospel of good books.”

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Author:S. Evan Townsend

“Nehmen Sie ein gutes Buch mit ins Bett - Bücher schnarchen nicht.”

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Author:Thea Dorn

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