Books are humanity in print.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Books are a finer world within the world.
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.
Books are the legacies 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.
I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.
The proper study of mankind is books.
Books are our umbilical cord to life. They connect us deeply, and with more meaning, to the world. They aren't about escaping from ourselves but expanding ourselves and finding within us the tools we need to survive.
The printing press did something really big for the world when everyone could get books in their hands and read.
Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
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