Quote by Francis Bacon
For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends,

For friends… do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble. – Francis Bacon

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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind. – Francis Bacon

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In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. – Thomas Carlyle

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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. – Harold Bloom

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The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation. – Aharon Appelfeld

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No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic. – Ann Landers

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My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory. – Georg Solti

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Drink and be filled up. – Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, 2000

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