Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?
With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, ''Lighthouses'' as the poet said ''erected in the sea of time.'' They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.
You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.
You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
You will be the same person in five as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.
You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.
You will, I am sure, agree with me that… if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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