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John Lubbock

"Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books."

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"Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books."

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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."

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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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"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."

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"I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide."

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"Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic."

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"I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part."

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"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."

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"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."

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

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"These are books that want to be read out loud. These are books kids share with each other, and I think that's important."

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"Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven."
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"If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done."
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"When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace."
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"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."
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"Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not."
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