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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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Heaven is the work of the best and kindest men and women. Hell is the work of prigs, pedants and professional truth-tellers. The world is an attempt to make the best of Heaven and Hell. – Samuel Butler

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A physicians physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a clerics divinity has to his power of influencing conduct. – Samuel Butler

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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book. – John Ruskin

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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. – Edmund Burke

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It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle. – Sutton Elbert Griggs

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