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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A good book should leave you… slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. – William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958

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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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It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle. – Sutton Elbert Griggs

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The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived. – Howard Pyle

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