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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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Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. – Francis Bacon

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The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. – Ross MacDonald

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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. – Charles W. Eliot

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The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practised at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness. – Holbrook Jackson

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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors. – Henry Ward Beecher

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