Book Quotes of the Week

"That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with delight and profit." Amos Bronson Alcott

"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it." Bertrand Russell

"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them." Lemony Snicket

"I am so clever that sometimes I do not understand a single word of what I am saying." Oscar Wilde

"There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times." Yevgeny Zamyatin, A Soviet Heretic: Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin

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