"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."

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"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."

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

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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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."

Stephen King, American Author

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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."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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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."

Sue Grafton, American Novelist

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

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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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."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

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"Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind."

James Russell Lowell, American Poet

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"I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."

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"Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries."

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"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see."

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"A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus."

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"To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself."

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"I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."

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"Thought is the parent of the deed."

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"If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else."

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