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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It is tact that is golden, not silence. – Samuel Butler

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Tact, Tactfulness

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In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. – Samuel Butler

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Procrastination

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Brigands demand your money or your life women require both. – Samuel Butler

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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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Child! Do not throw this book about;
Refrain from the unholy pleasure
Of cutting all the pictures out!
Preserve it as your chiefest treasure. – Hilaire Belloc

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The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. – Ross MacDonald

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There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marxs Capital. – W. E. B. Du Bois

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Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. – John W. Gardner

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When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. – William Shakespeare

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Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess. – Alan Shepard

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If women were particular about mens characters, they would never get married at all. – George Bernard Shaw

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