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***For every successful man there is a stolen book behind.
---Anonymous, Indian Proverb
***To read a book for the first time is to get an a new girl friend in a chat room; to read it for a second time is to chat with a boring boy. .
--- Anonymous, Chinese saying
Francis BACON (1561-1626) says ***Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. .
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***It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.
- Sutton Elbert GRIGGS (1872-1930)
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***There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house.
---- Joe RYAN
***He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot.
- Anonymous, Arabic Proverb
*** A book may be compared to your neighbor; if it be good,
it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of
it too early. - Henry Brooke
*** Book lovers never go to bed alone. - Unknown
***There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look
up and the kind you make up. - Rex Stout
*** Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the
one you want to read is always out. - Tom Masson
*** Knowledge is free at the library. Just bring your own
container. - Unknown
*** Book -- what they make a movie out of for television.
- Leonard Louis Levinson
*** On how many people's libraries, as on bottles from the
drugstore, one might write: "For external use only." -
Unknown
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Quotes About Borrowing Books
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other people have lent me. - Anatole France
Borrowers of books -- those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. - Charles Lamb
Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn't return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different. - John Steinbeck
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