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Robert Chambers

"Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors that they are ready to repeat their lessons as often as we please."

Robert Chambers, Scottish Writer
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"Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors that they are ready to repeat their lessons as often as we please."

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"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."

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"I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil."

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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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"Read much, but not many books."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist
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"Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet
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"Books are humanity in print."

Barbara Tuchman, American Historian
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"We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman
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