Quote by Holbrook Jackson
A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundr

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement. – Holbrook Jackson

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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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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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Books are embalmed minds. – Bovee

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The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. – James Bryce

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Books are the glass of council to dress ourselves by. – Bulstrode Whitlock

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