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Austin Dobson

"Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more."

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"Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more."

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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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"Perhaps this new kind of reading will appeal to us after we give it a try."

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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 was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair."

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"Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?"

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"Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself."

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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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"Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000."

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"Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing."
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"Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more."
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