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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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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. – Samuel Butler

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Faith – you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it. – Samuel Butler

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Faith
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing. – Samuel Butler

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No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. – Francis Bacon

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There are many persons pretending to have a refined literary taste, who seldom read any books but those which are fashionable… – Charles Lanman, “Thoughts on Literature,” 1840

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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. – Logan Pearsall Smith, Trivia, 1917

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