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The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me and nothing before me but hope.

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Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, a...more

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Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader wit...more

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Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy.

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Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

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It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy.