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Quote by John Ruskin
Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we

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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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts – the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. – John Ruskin

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When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before. – Clifton Fadiman

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Borrowers of books — those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. – Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia, "The Two Races of Men," 1822

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Books — the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity. – George Steiner

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Books are immortal sons deifying their sires. – Plato

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