Samuel Butler's Quote - The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not rea

Quote by Samuel Butler

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not rea

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. – Samuel Butler

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The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday. – Samuel Butler

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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation. – Samuel Butler

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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. – Samuel Butler

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Readers of novels. I sometimes think that I could, if put to it, pick the real readers of novels out of a crowd. They have a strangeness about the eye, almost as if there were an extra bit of lens on the cornea…. The glance of a reader shows me a soul with a different orientation to time… – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Notes from a Confession,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)

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Christie loved books… This amusement lightened many heavy hours, peopled the silent house with troops of friends, and, for a time, was the joy of her life. – Louisa May Alcott, “Servant,” Work: A Story of Experience, 1873

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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. – Arabic proverb

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A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend. – Author unknown

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