A book unlike a television program, moving picture or any other modern means of communication can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.

Quote by Joseph Wood Krutch

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It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than...

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than...

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the...

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the...

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but...

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but...

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in...

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in...

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments,...

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments,...

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and...

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and...

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask...

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask...

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask...

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask...

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time...

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time...

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

A book unlike a television program, moving picture or any other modern means of communication...

A book unlike a television program, moving picture or any other modern means of communication...

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments,...

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments,...

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no...

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no...

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments,...

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments,...

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no...

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no...

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most...

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most...

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a...

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a...

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in...

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in...