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“The walls of books around him dense with the past formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.”
“Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.”
“Laws die Books never.”
“A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.”
“All the known world excepting only savage nations is governed by books.”
“Deciding what to read is also a matter of filtering.”
“It is impossible for a Parisian to resist the desire to flick through the old volumes laid out by a books”
