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A library is thought in cold storage.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them.

A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

The newest books are those that never grow old.

If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.

This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.