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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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Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to mens manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral. – Francis Bacon

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A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with “a sort of greedy enjoyment,” as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was “saturated with the bouquet of silence.” – Holbrook Jackson

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He fed his spirit with the bread of books. – Edwin Markham

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How vast an estate it is that we came into as the intellectual heirs of all the watchers and searchers and thinkers and singers of the generations that are dead! What a heritage of stored wealth! What perishing poverty of mind we should be left in without it! – J.N. Larned

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Never judge a book by its movie. – J.W. Eagan

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