books, books, books....15 favorite quotes

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Books are the quietest and most

constant of friends; they are the most

accessible and wisest of

counselors, and the most patient of

teachers.  Charles W. Eliot

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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.  Chinese Proverb

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Let books be your dining table,And you shall be

full of delightsLet them be your

mattressAnd you shall sleep restful

nights.Author Unknown

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TV.  If kids are entertained by

two letters, imagine the fun they'll have with

twenty-six.  Open your

child's imagination.  Open a book. 

Author Unknown

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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and

hold intimate converse with men

of unseen generations - such

is a pleasure beyond compare. 

Kenko Yoshida

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For friends... do but look upon good Books:  they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor

dissemble.  Francis Bacon

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A blessed companion is a book, - a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend,... a book that,

at a touch, pours its heart into our own. Douglas Jerrold

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Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes

that day happier.Kathleen Norris

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Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have

prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.  Jesse Lee Bennett

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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge

is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Albert Camus

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Books are the carriers of civilization.

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb,

science crippled, thought and

speculation at a standstill.

Barbara Tuchman

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A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on

purpose for a life beyond.John Milton

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Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that

God has prepared for His creatures.Anthony Trollope

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Everywhere I have sought rest and not

found it, except sitting

in a corner by myself

with a little book.

Thomas p Kempis

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The books we read should be

chosen with great care, that they may be, as

an Egyptian king wrote over his library, ''The

medicines of the soul.''

Paxton Hood

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‘Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.’

Sir Francis Bacon

The End

With Metta,Bro. Oh Teik Bin