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«The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books that people talk about we never can recall; And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.»
«What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books.»
Author: Christopher Isherwood
(Author, Dramatist, Satirist, Writer)
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bland, coincidence, go around, on the books, the books
«The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public . . . Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
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dragons, fallacies, fallacy, fiery, interpose, interposed, interposing, librarian, librarians, Libraries, manage, public libraries, public library, public servant, reader, servants, the books, The Librarian, The Public Interest
«The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
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Books
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Brahmin, Brahmins, contain, Precepts, prediction, predictions, strongly, the books, the smallest
«We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter-and to write it in the books of law.»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
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chapter, chapters, Equal rights, talked, the books