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The true university of these days i…

24 Sep , 2019  

The true university of these days is a collection of books. Great short quote and quotation by: Thomas Carlyle , Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 – 1881)

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There is no such thing as a moral o…

3 Jul , 2015  

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. Great short quote and quotation by: Oscar Wilde , Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)

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Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891, preface

There is no such thing as a moral o…

3 Jul , 2015  

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. Great short quote and quotation by: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891, preface , Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)

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Gilbert Highet

These are not books, lumps of lifel…

25 Feb , 2014  

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. Great short quote and quotation by: Gilbert Highet ,

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Sir William Osler

To study the phenomenon of disease …

13 Oct , 2011  

To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all. Great short quote and quotation by: Sir William Osler , British (Canadian-born) physician (1849 – 1919)

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Henry C. Rogers

Upon books the collective education…

24 Mar , 2011  

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought. Great short quote and quotation by: Henry C. Rogers ,

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What we become depends on what we r…

15 Feb , 2011  

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. Great short quote and quotation by: Thomas Carlyle , Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 – 1881)

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Heinrich Heine

When books are burned in the end pe…

15 Feb , 2011  

When books are burned in the end people will be burned too. Great short quote and quotation by: Heinrich Heine , German critic & poet (1797 – 1856)

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When I am attacked by gloomy though…

15 Feb , 2011  

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind. Great short quote and quotation by: Michel de Montaigne , French essayist (1533 – 1592)

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Thomas More

When the destroyer comes, his first…

15 Feb , 2011  

When the destroyer comes, his first act will be to destroy all the books. Great short quote and quotation by: Thomas More ,

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Karl Kraus

Where do I find the time for not re…

15 Feb , 2011  

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books? Great short quote and quotation by: Karl Kraus , Austrian author and journalist (1874 – 1936)

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Heinrich Heine, From his play Almansor (1821)

Where they have burned books, they …

15 Feb , 2011  

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. (Dort, wo man B?cher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen) Great short quote and quotation by: Heinrich Heine, From his play Almansor (1821) , German critic & poet (1797 – 1856)

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