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Quotes about books - reading
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. (Adams Dawn)
O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast. (Adams Dawn)
Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilette --throw Roderick Random into the closet --put The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man; thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster; there --put The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them. (Adams Dawn)
What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, moldering books. (Adams Dawn)
Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication. (Adams Dawn)
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. (Adams Dawn)
No furniture is so charming as books. (Adams Dawn)
Live always in the best company when you read. (Adams Dawn)
A multitude of books distracts the mind. (Adams Dawn)
Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers. (Adams Dawn)
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch. (Adams Dawn)
A book is like a man -- clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun. (Adams Dawn)
The age of the book is almost gone. (Adams Dawn)
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road. (Adams Dawn)
Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! Take them out of this book, for instance, --you might as well take the book along with them; --one cold external winter would reign in every page of it; restore them to the writer; --he steps forth like a bridegroom, --bids All-hail; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail. (Adams Dawn)
One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct. (Adams Dawn)
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life. (Adams Dawn)
Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark? (Adams Dawn)
A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it. (Adams Dawn)
Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever. (Adams Dawn)
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed (Adams Dawn)
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new. (Adams Dawn)
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it. (Adams Dawn)
To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object. (Adams Dawn)
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. (Adams Dawn)
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