Saturday 15 August 2015

Book Quotes of the Week


"Not reading a beautiful book again because you've already read it, that is, as if you were not visiting a dear friend again because you know him already." Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

"The great objection to new books is that they prevent our reading old ones." Joseph Joubert

"He fed his spirit with the bread of books." Edwin Markham

"The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television." Andrew Ross

"Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books." Henry David Thoreau

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