The following quotes were excerpted from The Book Lovers’ Anthology, an anthology edited by The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. The book is a collection of quotes about the joys and importance of reading.
May I a small house and large garden have!
And a few friends, and many books, both true.
-Abraham Cowley, The Wish
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Read Few Books Well
Read few books well. We forget names and dates; and reproach our memory. They are of little consequence. We feel our limbs enlarge and strengthen; yet cannot tell the dinner or the dish that caused the alteration. Our minds improve though we cannot name the author and have forgotten the particulars. Read all books through; and bad books most carefully, lest you should lose one good thought, being determined never to look into them again. A man may read a great deal too much.
-J. Horne Tooke, Recollections of S. Rogers
