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Books constitute capital.
A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years.
It is not, then, an article of mere consumption
but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men,
setting out in life, it is their only capital.
- Thomas Jefferson
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
Be careful about reading health books.
You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain
Books serve to show a man
that those original thoughts of his
aren't very new at all.
- Abraham Lincoln
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
True justice is not a matter of courts and law books,
but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.
- Jimmy Carter
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
The man who does not read good books
has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain
We do not need to proselytize
either by our speech or by our writing.
We can only do so really with our lives.
Let our lives be open books for all to study.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
Read the best books first,
or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
- Henry David Thoreau
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
Books are the treasured wealth of the world
and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
- Henry David Thoreau
A house without books is like a room without windows.
- Horace Mann
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person
walks in the woods and listens carefully,
he can learn more than what is in books,
for they speak with the voice of God.
- George Washington Carver
Some books leave us free
and some books make us free.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I cannot live without books.
- Thomas Jefferson
Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics
even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
- Henry David Thoreau
The things I want to know are in books;
my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations...
The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts.
They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Winston Churchill
Each age, it is found, must write its own books;
or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses,
a telescope and a microscope.
And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance
through the tender hearts of my friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
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