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William Dean Howells

"The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all."

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"The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all."

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"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."

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"Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to."

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"Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever."

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"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."

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"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."

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"Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart."
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