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Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
Albert Einstein

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Winston Churchill

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Abraham Lincoln

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Abraham Lincoln

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
Confucius

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
Oscar Wilde

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Mark Twain

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Mark Twain

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Maya Angelou

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare

I cannot live without books.
Thomas Jefferson

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas Jefferson

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
Mahatma Gandhi

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs

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