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Quote by Francis Bacon
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few

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

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. – Francis Bacon

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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. – Francis Bacon

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Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books. – Karl Lagerfeld

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This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. – Elbert Hubbard

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A good book has no ending. – R.D. Cumming

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In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit? – Aubrey Beardsley

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Its so hard when I have to, And so easy when I want to. – Sondra Anice Barnes

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Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before. – Audre Lorde

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