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"'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'" Lewis Carroll 4.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"...A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." John Milton 4.7333 average rating Rate this Quote
"A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book." Thomas Merton 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A best seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well." Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin 1.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A book is a friend; a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still; and there are not many friends who know enough to do that." B. A. Billingsly 4.2500 average rating Rate this Quote
"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors." Henry Ward Beecher Rate this Quote
"A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face… one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy." Charles Langbridge Morgan 4.8000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it." Edward P. Morgan 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"A Book of Verses undeneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread – and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness- Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!" Omar Khayyám 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A dirty book is rarely dusty." Author Unknown 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A good book has no ending." R. D. Cumming 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend." Author Unknown Rate this Quote
"A home without books is a body without soul." Marcus Tullius Cicero 3.2000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books." François Maurice Mitterrand 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A room without books is like a body without a soul." Marcus Tullius Cicero 4.4286 average rating Rate this Quote
"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight." Robertson Davies 3.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned--the biggest word of all--look." Robert 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book." Author Unknown 4.8333 average rating Rate this Quote
"Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other people." Thomas Davidson 4.2500 average rating Rate this Quote
"Beware of the man of one book." Saint Thomas Aquinas 4.5556 average rating Rate this Quote
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