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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.

Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

If you have a book, you have a friend.

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

I really have lived in books. Books are friends. They are some of the friends that make you who you are.

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.