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Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin

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

- Sir Francis Bacon

Laws die, Books never.

- Bulwer-Lytton

A book is the only immortality.

- Rufus Choate

Beware of the man of one book.

- Isaac D'Israeli

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from... human souls we never saw... And yet these arouse us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

- Charles Kingsley

The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

- Walter Savage Landor

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.

- Oscar Wilde

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

- John Milton

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.

- John Milton

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

- Logan P. Smith

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

- Voltaire

Camerado, this is no book. Who touches this, touches a man.

- Walt Whitman