After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
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You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
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Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
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The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
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To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.
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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
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