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The perception of beauty is a moral test.

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In books, that which is most generally interesting is what comes home to the most cherished private experience of the greatest number. It is not the b...more

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It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which, if we could really hear and...more

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It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

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The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered....more

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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and reveal...more

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A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work ...more

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It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which, if we could really hear and...more

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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

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The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.

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The orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, and speaks to the mob, before him, to those who can hear him; but the writer, whose more...more

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A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the ...more