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I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies.

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Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.

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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

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The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

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Words are clothes that thoughts wear

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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

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We want words to do more than they can. We try to do with them what comes to very much like trying to mend a watch with a pickaxe or to paint a miniat...more

"

I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies.

"

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.

"

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

"

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

"

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

"

Words are clothes that thoughts wear

"

We want words to do more than they can. We try to do with them what comes to very much like trying to mend a watch with a pickaxe or to paint a miniat...more