Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading

Quote by Rufus Choate

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Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all...

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all...

A book is the only immortality.

A book is the only immortality.

Next o'er his books his eyes begin to roll, In pleasing memory of all he...

Next o'er his books his eyes begin to roll, In pleasing memory of all he...

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words...

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words...

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of...

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of...

Don't judge a book by its cover

Don't judge a book by its cover

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side...

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side...

Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not...

Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not...

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long...

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long...

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it....

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it....

Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate...

Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate...

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of...

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of...

Books didn't figure in my family very much. . . . However, my grandmother's attic...

Books didn't figure in my family very much. . . . However, my grandmother's attic...

This is why I studied literature in college. This is why I became a teacher:...

This is why I studied literature in college. This is why I became a teacher:...

If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say...

If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say...

He is running not for election but for the history books.

He is running not for election but for the history books.

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away...

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away...

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so...

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so...