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Letter "B" » Books
«Books had instant replay long before televised sports.»
«Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.»
Author: Charles W. Eliot
(University President)
| About:
Books,
Friendship,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
accessible, constant, counselors, patient, patient of, quietest, teachers, wisest
«Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.»
«Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.»
«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.»
«Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can»
Author: William Feather
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
broaden, broadened, broadening, Broadens, strengthen
«Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.»
Author: Anthony Burgess
(Critic, Man of letter, Novelist)
| About:
Books,
Libraries
| Keywords:
bookstore, bookstores, branch, neighborhood
«Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.»
«Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Books,
Generations
| Keywords:
generations, inheritance, inheritances, treasured
«Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
article, Articles of, capital, constitute, fairly, hundreds, lasts, out in, professional, professional life, setting, the article
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