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Quotes about books - reading
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books. (Adams Dawn)
The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity. (Adams Dawn)
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books. (Adams Dawn)
If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that. (Adams Dawn)
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. (Adams Dawn)
A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one. (Adams Dawn)
Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please. (Adams Dawn)
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. (Adams Dawn)
Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before. (Adams Dawn)
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable. (Adams Dawn)
A good title is the title of a successful book. (Adams Dawn)
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. (Adams Dawn)
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. (Adams Dawn)
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. (Adams Dawn)
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring (Adams Dawn)
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote. (Adams Dawn)
Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads. (Adams Dawn)
The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. (Adams Dawn)
A book is the only immortality. (Adams Dawn)
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading. (Adams Dawn)
A room without books is like a body without a soul. (Adams Dawn)
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason: they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. Those works, therefore, are the most valuable, that set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation. understand them. (Adams Dawn)
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. (Adams Dawn)
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought -- asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation. (Adams Dawn)
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. (Adams Dawn)
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