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Your Quotes for 1 September 2005 - Books

Back to School Week continues at Quotes of the Day, and today the quotes will focus on Books. Whether education is going to be a formal matter in a classroom or an ongoing activity, books are the central means of gathering up ideas to spread around.

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, 1809 - 1865

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.
     - Edward P. Morgan

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
     - François Marie Arouet (Voltaire), 1694 - 1778

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat, or fly into the future.
     - James Alonzo Bishop, 1907 - 1987

Books give not wisdome where none was before,
But where some is, there reading makes it more.
     - Sir John Harrington, 1561 - 1612

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island ... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.
     - Walter Elias Disney, 1901 - 1966

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