God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
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Books preserve the voices of the past, making readers heirs to the spiritual life of earlier ages.
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
— Dr. Bacon
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— Charles Caleb Colton
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
— Joseph Brodsky
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— The Kalends
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— Thomas Fuller
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— Unknown
