Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

—Charles W. Eliot

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More quotations tagged with “books”

I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.

—Charles De Secondat

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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

—Charles Caleb Colton

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

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Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

—Austin Phelps

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

—Arnold Lobel

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