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Letter "B" » Books
«A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.»
Author: Brendan Francis
| About:
Books,
Quotations
| Keywords:
article, infantryman, infantrymen, quotation, rifle, with authority
«A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way»
«A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.»
Author: Horace Mann
| About:
Books,
Houses
| Keywords:
books, bring, bring up, buy, children, has a, house, No Man, room, rooming house, surrounding, windows
«A room without books is like a body without a soul.»
«A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.»
«Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered, and in the air that had been the purest and brightest in the house an unbearable smell of rotten memories floated.»
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
| About:
Books,
Reading
| Keywords:
brightest, covers, damaged, dampness, floated, in the air, In the House, livid, parchment, parchments, prospered, purest, rotten, smell, the books, unbearable
«A home without books is a body without soul.»
«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.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Books,
Maturity,
Youth
| Keywords:
maturity, moonlight, noon, once more
«A man will turn over half a library to make one book»
«A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.»
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