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Selexyz Bookstore in Maastricht, Holland

Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. ~Author Unknown 2

Shakespeare & Co. Antiquarian Books, Paris

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible 3 and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. ~Charles W. Eliot

The Academic Bookstore in Helsinki, Finland

I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book. ~Groucho Marx 4

The Art Nouveau facade of the Lello bookstore in Porto, Portugal

Let books be your dining table, And you shall be full of delights Let them be your mattress And you shall sleep restful nights. ~Author Unknown

A very cramped bookstore in Calcutta, India

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television. ~Andrew Ross

The bookstore El Ateneo in Buenos Aires, Argentina

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond 7 compare. ~Kenko Yoshida

American Book Center in Amsterdam, Holland

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. ~James Russell Lowell

The Bookbar Bookshop, Rome, Italy

Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. 9 ~Jesse Lee Bennett

Plural Bookshop, Bratislava, Slovakia

Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasuregrounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh. ~Judah Ibn Tibbon

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Bookworm, Beijing, China

A house without books is like a room without windows. ~Heinrich Mann

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Cafebreria El Pendulo, Mexico City, Mexico

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome. ~William Ewart Gladstone

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Livraria da Vila, Sao Paulo, Brazil

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors. ~Henry Ward Beecher 13

The Last Bookstore, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. ~Jeremy Collier

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Atlantis Books, Santorini, Greece

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most. ~ Theodore Parker

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Corso Como Bookshop, Milan, Italy

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can ~William Feather

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Barter Books, Alnwick, United Kingdom

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way ~Caroline Gordon 17

Daikanyama T-Site, Tokyo, Japan

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. 18 ~Henry David Thoreau

Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, U.S.

You cannot open a book without learning something. ~Confucius

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The End

Great Books are trusted friends to treasure. They are priceless gems beyond measure.

With Metta, Bro. Oh Teik Bin

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