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The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.
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History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.
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Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.
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Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness;... they teach us how to live and how to die; they dispel melancholy by their mirth, and amuse by their wit; they prepare the soul to suffer everything and desire nothing; they introduce us to ourselves.
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Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.
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A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.
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Never put off till to-morrow the book you can read today.
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A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of greedy enjoyment," as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was "saturated with the bouquet of silence."
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Bookshops are the first and foremost of fine sights in all the fair cities of the world, and the surest retreats of delectable temptation.
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If we are imprisoned in ourselves, books provide us with the means of escape. If we have run too far away from ourselves, books show us the way back.
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The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.
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Holbrook Jackson
Born:
December 31, 1874
Died:
June 16, 1948
(aged 73)
Bio:
George Holbrook Jackson was a British journalist, writer and publisher. He was recognised as one of the leading bibliophiles of his time.
Known for:
The anatomy of bibliomania (1930)
The Eighteen Nineties (1913)
The fear of books (1932)
The reading of books (1946)
Platitudes in the making (1911)
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