“Some time after, asking a friend at court how they came to fix on that determinate number, he told me that his majesty’s mathematicians, having taken the height of my body by the help of a quadrant, and finding it to exceed theirs in the proportion of twelve to one, they concluded from the similarity of their bodies, that mine must contain at least 1724 of theirs, and consequently would require as much food as was necessary to support that number of Lilliputians. By.”
1. “Books are the training weights of the mind.”
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9. “Sleep is good, he said, And books are better.”
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16. “Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.”
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24. “Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.”
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26. “A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us.”
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30. “Libraries are our friends.”
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32. “I’m a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.”
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35. “Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.”
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42. “The world is not in your books and maps, it’s out there.”
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49. “My alma mater was books, a good library.”
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