Research: the process of going up alleys to see if they're blind. **Marston Bates
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I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there; but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page. **Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead. **Sinclair Lewis
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Scholars who are worth anything at all never know what is called a "hard grind" or what "bitter study" means. They merely love books and read because they can't help themselves. **Lin Yutang
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The great end of art is to strik the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world. **Friedrich Nietzche
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There is one respect in which a book is the best of all possible friends. A book never bores you because you can always lay it down before it becomes a bore. **Lynn Abbott
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One cannot celebrate books sufficienctly. After saying his best, still something remains to be spoken in their praise. **A. Bronson Alcott
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chesed and digested. **Francis Bacon
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. **Henry Ward Beecher
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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors. **Henry Ward Beecher
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Child! Do not throw this book about;
Refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out!
Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.
Hilaire Belloc
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