Thomas Carlyle Quotes on Books
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The Book had in a high degree excited us to self-activity, which is the best effect of any book.
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In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
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All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.