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Books Quotes - I

Books Quotes - I

1. A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2. Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain

3. Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. - Chanakya

4. It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. - Winston Churchill

5. The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. - Abraham Lincoln

6. There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island. - Walt Disney

7. I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. - Oliver Goldsmith

8. Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. - Horace

9. The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. - Rene Descartes

10. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. - Oscar Wilde

11. When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream. - Elvis Presley

12. And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. - William Shakespeare

13. I've actually not read any books on time management. - Elon Musk

14. I cannot live without books. - Thomas Jefferson

15. Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen. - Samuel Johnson.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.