"My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me."

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"A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat."

Mark Twain, American Author

Books, Leather, Cat, Humor

"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Books, Fire

"Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

Books, Memory, Freedom, Knowledge

"The Bible is the one book we've most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way."

Geoffrey Wood, American Author

Books, Faith, Knowledge, Reading

"A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

Books, Knowledge, War, Idea

"Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood."

Beverly Cleary, American Author

Books, Childhood, Will

"What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for."

Poul Anderson, American Writer

Books, Force, Trying

"Standing before the worn books and dusty shelves, she seemed like a ray of light in the windowless room."

Lisa Kleypas, American Novelist

Books, Light, Contrast, Hope

"When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books."

Norman MacCaig, Scottish Poet

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"And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others."

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"There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets."

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"Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise."

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"Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal."

Earth

"Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion."

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"The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck."

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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."

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

"Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom."

"The Bible is the one book we've most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way."

"A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns."

"Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood."

"What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for."

"Standing before the worn books and dusty shelves, she seemed like a ray of light in the windowless room."

"When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books."

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"And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others."

"There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets."

"Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise."

"Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal."

"A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse."

"If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable."

"Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality."

"Oh! blame not the bard."

"Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion."

"The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck."