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| Books Funny Quotes | No. | Quotation | Last Name | First Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Books are the legacies of that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. | Addison | Joseph |
| 2 | Ideas in the mind are the transcript of the world; words are the transcript of ideas; and writing and printing are the transcript of words. | Addison | Joseph |
| 3 | That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit. | Alcott | Amos |
| 4 | For this reason poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; and more worthy of serious attention than history. | Aristotle | |
| 5 | A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. | Auden | W.H. |
| 6 | A classic is a book everyone wants to have read, but no one wants to read. | Author Unknown | |
| 7 | Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return ex reason. | Bacon | |
| 8 | Books are ships which pass through the vast sea of time. | Bacon | |
| 9 | Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested. | Bacon | Francis |
| 10 | Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness. | Bartholini | |
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