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"After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.  The true University of these days is a collection of books."



~ Thomas Carlyle
Of Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic, 1841.

"So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books."
~ Ray Bradbury

"The moment a book is lent, I begin to miss it.  My mind goes to the gaps as one's tongue goes to a cavity.  Until the book is returned, I feel like a parent waiting up in the small hours for a teenage son or daughter to come home from the dubious party."
~Anatole Broyard

"An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy."
~ Augustine Birrell

"There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance.  What, then, did I do?  I read faster."
~ Leo Rosten

~ A Passion for Books, Edited by H. Rabinowitz & Rob Kaplan. Three Rivers Press, 1999.

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