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Quote by Walter Pater
Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgariti

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. – Walter Pater

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That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. – Walter Pater

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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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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. – Alan Bennett

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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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Medicine for the soul. – Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes

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