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	"A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting." - -- Henry David Thoreau

Subject: Books

Top 5 quotes from Books

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
"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."
"'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read."
"Children have a natural antipathy to books - handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous."
"You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books."

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