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Re: [BKARTS] Sayings or proverbs with books?
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- Subject: Re: [BKARTS] Sayings or proverbs with books?
- From: Lavinia Adler <laviniaa@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:42:27 -0500
- Message-id: <20090113.124227.2664.2.LaviniaA@juno.com>
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Here are some quotations I particularly like:
Lavinia
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A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. - Martin
Tupper 1810-1889
Reading is a means of thinking with another person?s mind. - Charles
Scribner Jr.
Books are quiet... They do not pause to deliver commercials. - anonymous
Books are the carriers of civilization. - Barbara Tuchman
Books are humanity in print. - Barbara Tuchman
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be
chewed and digested.
- Francis Bacon 1561-1626
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