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Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West. – E.M. Forster

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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. – E.M. Forster

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Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle. – E.M. Forster

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Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death hath no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever. – J. Swartz

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The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Books had instant replay long before televised sports. – Bern Williams

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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. – Francis Bacon

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