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The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

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To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the cu...more

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The perception of beauty is a moral test.

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Read the best books first or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

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Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. ...more

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The question is not what you look at, but what you see. It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a ...more

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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

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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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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and ri...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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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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Little is to be expected of that day, if it can be called a day, to which we are not awakened by our Genius, but by the mechanical nudgings of some se...more

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The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and we must laboriousl...more

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Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous student will a...more

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