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Never Lend Books, For No One Ever Returns Them; The Only Books I Have In My Library Are Books That Other Folks Have Lent To Me.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my
library are books that other folks have lent to me.
-- Anatole France
Related:
The books that everybody admires are those nobody reads. -- Anatole France
I never buy books on impulse. Only on warp.
I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
-- Emerso...
Okay, I think that I can now return to my country and my village.
By the way, how many forbidden books do you have?" "Oh,", one of them said to me, " their number grows up geometrically....
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Tempest -- Act i, Sc. 2...
Lend your books and lose your friends.
Kent: But there's already one big winner: Our state school system, which gets fully half the profits from the library.
Skinner: [talking with his teachers] Just think what we can buy with that money....
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Books are for use. -- First law of library science