I spent all the money I had, to get the sacred books of my life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

~ Mary Ann Shaffer

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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

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My depth of purse is not so greatNor yet my bibliophilic greed,That merely buying doth elate:The books I buy I like to read:Still e'en when dawdling in a mead,Beneath a cloudless summer sky,By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed,The books I read — I like to buy.

~ A. Edward Newton

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Buying a book is not enough... You must absorb the knowledge it contains. Your personalized knowledge is not what's on your shelf, but how much you put into yourself!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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