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MysteRy · « **Reply #15 on:** March 17, 2016, 08:23:56 PM »

[highlight-text]Discretion is not the better part of biography.

Lytton Strachey

MysteRy · « **Reply #16 on:** March 17, 2016, 08:24:32 PM »

[highlight-text]A good title is the title of a successful book.

Raymond Chandler

MysteRy · « **Reply #17 on:** March 17, 2016, 08:25:11 PM »

[highlight-text]Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Henry Ward Beecher

MysteRy · « **Reply #18 on:** March 17, 2016, 08:25:56 PM »

[highlight-text]A dictionary should be descriptive not prescriptive.

Phillip Babcock Gove

MysteRy · « **Reply #19 on:** March 17, 2016, 08:26:25 PM »

[highlight-text]I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies.

Samuel Butler

MysteRy · « **Reply #20 on:** March 18, 2016, 01:48:59 PM »

[highlight-text]A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

Logan Pearsall Smith

MysteRy · « **Reply #21 on:** March 18, 2016, 01:49:28 PM »

[highlight-text]Reading like prayer remains one of our few private acts.

William Jovanovich

MysteRy · « **Reply #22 on:** March 18, 2016, 01:50:00 PM »

[highlight-text]Camerado this is no book. Who touches this touches a man.

Walt Whitman

MysteRy · « **Reply #23 on:** March 18, 2016, 01:50:28 PM »

[highlight-text]One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

Benjamin Jowett

MysteRy · « **Reply #24 on:** March 18, 2016, 01:50:56 PM »

[highlight-text]A lexicographer a writer of dictionaries a harmless drudge.

Samuel Johnson

MysteRy · « **Reply #25 on:** March 18, 2016, 01:51:23 PM »

[highlight-text]The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Thomas Carlyle

MysteRy · « **Reply #26 on:** March 18, 2016, 01:51:51 PM »

[highlight-text]You should read it though there is much that is skip-worthy.

Herbert Asquith

MysteRy · « **Reply #27 on:** March 18, 2016, 01:52:21 PM »

[highlight-text]The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

Anthony Burgess

MysteRy · « **Reply #28 on:** March 18, 2016, 01:52:48 PM »

[highlight-text]Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Sir Arthur Helps

MysteRy · « **Reply #29 on:** March 18, 2016, 01:53:17 PM »

[highlight-text]The first book of the nation is the dictionary of its language.

Contanitin Comte de Volney

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