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Letter "B" » Books
«Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.»
«Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness»
Author: Bartholini
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
dormant, in darkness, lame, natural philosophy, natural science
«You are the same today that you are going to be in five years from now except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read.»
«When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.»
«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»
Author: Cliff Fadiman
| About:
Books,
Reading
| Keywords:
classic, reread, rereading, There was, the book, The Classics
«Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.»
Author: Heinrich Heine
(Poet, Writer)
| About:
Books
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burn, human beings, in the end, wherever
«Wine books flow from printing presses like water from broken spigots.»
Author: Howard G. Goldberg
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
flow from, presses, printing, printing press, spigot
«With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that [the books] have a life of their own, quite apart from me.»
Author: Madeleine L'Engle
| About:
Books
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apart, convinced, more and more, of their own, the books
«When the [Supreme] Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.»
Author: Robert H. Jackson
| About:
America and Americans,
Books,
Justice,
Opinions
| Keywords:
accounts, high quality, moved to, provided with, Supreme Court
«Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
manuscript, manuscripts, original
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