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"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."
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"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."
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"Doctor Sleep - book (By Stephen King) is the best choice before going to bed!"
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"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
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"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
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"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."
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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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"Without story books is like a person with no soul."
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Explore more quotes by Francis Bacon
"Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible."
Truth
"He that hath knowledge spareth his words."
Knowledge
"Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws."
Justice
"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
Age
"The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses."
Man
"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."
Lie
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
Humor
"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool."
Happiness
"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."
Experience
"The worst men often give the best advice."
Man
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