There is no mistaking a good book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

About This Quote

A good book is unlike other things in that it physically meets you. It forces you to take time out of your busy schedule to read. It makes you feel like the world is safer and brighter when you are reading fiction. Sometimes, even when there are problems in our lives, we can be distracted by a good book because it is so soothing.

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1. If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

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2. When they have discovered truth in nature they fling it into a book, where it is even worse hands.

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3. ...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

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