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William Osler

"It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents."

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"It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents."

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

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"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."

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"Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies - for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry - I say to myself, "What a pity I can't buy that book, for I already have a copy at home."

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"Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic."

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"I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something."

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"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."

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"Books-oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the samefeelings.""I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least beno want of subject. We may compare our different opinions."

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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."

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"The proper study of mankind is books."

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