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MysteRy · « **Reply #30 on:** March 18, 2016, 01:53:51 PM »

[highlight-text]A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

Marshall McLuhan

MysteRy · « **Reply #31 on:** March 18, 2016, 01:54:19 PM »

[highlight-text]Any book which is at all important should be re-read immediately.

Arthur Schopenhauer

MysteRy · « **Reply #32 on:** March 18, 2016, 01:54:45 PM »

[highlight-text]I hate books; they teach us only to talk about what we do not know.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

MysteRy · « **Reply #33 on:** March 18, 2016, 01:55:11 PM »

[highlight-text]To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows - and I needn't.

Francis Yeats-Brown

MysteRy · « **Reply #34 on:** March 18, 2016, 01:55:39 PM »

[highlight-text]Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.

Samuel Butler

MysteRy · « **Reply #35 on:** March 18, 2016, 01:56:05 PM »

[highlight-text]A publisher is somebody looking for someone who has something to say.

Lome Pierce

MysteRy · « **Reply #36 on:** March 18, 2016, 01:56:30 PM »

[highlight-text]All the known world excepting only savage nations is governed by books.

Voltaire

MysteRy · « **Reply #37 on:** March 18, 2016, 01:56:58 PM »

[highlight-text]Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book!

Bible

MysteRy · « **Reply #38 on:** March 18, 2016, 01:57:23 PM »

[highlight-text]Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

W. H. Auden

MysteRy · « **Reply #39 on:** March 18, 2016, 01:57:54 PM »

[highlight-text]The central theme of the novel is that they were glad to see each other.

Gertrude Stein

MysteRy · « **Reply #40 on:** March 18, 2016, 01:58:21 PM »

[highlight-text]The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

Jean Cocteau

MysteRy · « **Reply #41 on:** March 18, 2016, 01:58:51 PM »

[highlight-text]What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!

James Russell Lowell

MysteRy · « **Reply #42 on:** March 18, 2016, 01:59:15 PM »

[highlight-text]The telephone book is full of facts but it doesn't contain a single idea.

Mortimer J. Adler

MysteRy · « **Reply #43 on:** March 18, 2016, 01:59:43 PM »

[highlight-text]The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Samuel Butler

MysteRy · « **Reply #44 on:** March 18, 2016, 02:00:09 PM »

[highlight-text]The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

Walter Savage Landor

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