One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was "the only book which allowed him to forget politics.

Barbara W. Tuchman
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  1. A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day.

  2. Everything interested him and everything excited him.

  3. Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and...

  4. Books are humanity in print.

  5. Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.

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