I am an avid reader and always have a weakness for books... here's a selection of some of my favourite quotes that was in Forbes October 5, 2009 issue.
Despite the rage about eBook, I still like mine which I can hold and feel...
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- If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. ~ John Ruskin
- I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit and think. Book thinks for me. ~ Charles Lamb
- A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. ~ Martin Tupper
- The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul - BOOK. ~ Emily Dickinson
- In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. ~ Mortimer Jerome Adler
- A good book shoule be leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. ~ William Styron
- It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. ~ William Ellery Channing
- Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ~ Francis Bacon
- A good book is the purest essence of a human soul. ~ Thomas Carlyle
- I do not read a book. I had a conversation with the author. ~ Elber Hubbard
- A book is a present you can open again and again. ~ Anonymous
- The investigation into the meaning of words is the beginning of education. ~ Antisthenes
- The proper study for mankind is books. ~ Aldous Huxley
- Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! ~ JOB19:23
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