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I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for whic

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. – E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

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Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West. – E.M. Forster

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For friends… do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble. – Francis Bacon

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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. – Arabic proverb

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Reading — the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay. – William Styron

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