Quotes
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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. – Mark Twain
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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. – Unknown
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In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. – Mortimer J. Adler
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The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still…
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When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before. – Clifton Fadiman
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. – Edward M. Forster
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings. – Harold Geneen
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Printer’s ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while…
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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. – Thornton Wilder
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Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. – Antonio Smith
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Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars. – Les Brown
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Be careful what rut you choose. You may be in it the rest of your life. – Unknown