"No furniture so charming as books." Sydney Smith 1771-1845
"Classics. A book which people praise and don't read." Mark Twain 1835-1910
"A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and for ever." Martin Tupper 1810-89
"A great book is like great evil." Callimachus c.305-c.240 BC
"There is no book so bad that some good cannot be got out of it." Pliny the Elder AD23-79
"This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with feelings of women in a drawing-room." Virginia Woolf 1882-1941
"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." Francis Bacon 1561-1626
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