Holbrook Jackson - The anatomy of bibliomania (1930)

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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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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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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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