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Letter "B" » Books
«The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.»
Author: Allan Bloom
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Books,
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enfeebled, enfeebles, fatal, here and now, strengthens, tendency, The Vision
«The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.»
«The comic book [is] the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids and a threat to the future.»
Author: John Mason Brown
(Critic)
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Books
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bane, bassinet, comic, comic book, comic books, marijuana, nurseries, nursery, The Comic, The Nursery
«The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time»
«The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den»
Author: Phillip Adams
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Books
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addiction, counterpart, counterparts, den, fierce, forcing, heroin, heroin addiction, junkie, junkies, junky, Libraries, literary, nicotine, opium, opium den, shops
«The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.»
«The book you don't read can't help»
«The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
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Books
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Brahmin, Brahmins, contain, Precepts, prediction, predictions, strongly, the books, the smallest
«The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.»
«The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.»
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