Quote by Douglas Jerrold
A blessed companion is a book, — a book that, fitly chosen,

A blessed companion is a book, — a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend,… a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into our own. – Douglas Jerrold

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Dress it as we may, feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform? – Douglas Jerrold

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In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation. – Stéphane Mallarmé

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Sit bona librorum copia. – Horace (There are plenty of good books. Let me have a good supply of books.)

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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. – Mary Wortley Montagu

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Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book. – John Ruskin

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Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. – John James Audubon

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