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“Roger Bacon held that three classes of substance were capable of magic: the herbal, the mineral, and the verbal. With their leaves of fiber, their inks of copperas and soot, and their words, books are an amalgam of the three.”

Book:Library: An Unquiet History

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“The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely indulged, in contrasting the past and the present, the employment of mind and dissipation of unpleasant ideas which only reading could produce made her thankfully turn to a book.”

Reading Books

Author:Jane Austen

“One generation's pleasure became a burden for another. Hence, entire collections from father to son were sold for a song, and the vendors, knowing nothing about literature, would place a price on the books. (about secondhand literature book)”

Books Secondhand

Book:Breathless in Bombay: Stories

Source: Breathless in Bombay: Stories

“No matter how strong you are, you cannot hold open the jaws of a great-white shark with your bare hands... that can do your brain.”

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Author:Ivan Stoikov

“Our library isn't very extensive," said Anne, "but every book in it is a friend. We've picked our books up through the years, here and there, never buying one until we had first read it and knew that it belonged to the race of Joseph.”

Reading Books Library

Book:Anne's House of Dreams

Source: Anne's House of Dreams

“As you work toward your vision, you will encounter a great deal of opposition, but with tenacity, you will find true victory.”

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Book:A Manual for Victory

Source: A Manual for Victory

“So -- I confess I have been a rake at reading. I have read those things which I ought not to have read, and I have not read those things which I ought to have read, and there is no health in me -- if by health you mean an inclusive and coherent knowledge of any body of great literature. I can only protest, like all rakes in their shameful senescence, that I have had a good time.”

Reading Books

Book:The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading Writing & the World of Books

Source: The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading Writing & the World of Books

“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.”

Knowledge Books Experience Observation Hearsay

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

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

“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.”

Books Renaissance

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

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