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 history of art is the history of revivals. – Samuel Butler

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Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. – Samuel Butler

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The course of true anything never does run smooth. – Samuel Butler

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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. – Henry Ward Beecher

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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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There is reading, and there is reading. Reading as a means to an end, for information, to cultivate oneself; reading as an end in itself, a process, a compulsion. – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Notes from a Confession,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)

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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. – Harold Bloom

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken. – Proverb

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It is all right to rat, but you cant re-rat. – Sir Winston Churchill

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Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I dont care thats what poetry is supposed to do. – Diane Wakoski

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I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards. – Suzy Bogguss

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