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"Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant."
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"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."
"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
"Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion."
"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."
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"No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end."
"We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed."
"To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength."
"What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation."
"Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant."
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