Bookish

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Mark GatissCreatorMark Gatissas Gabriel Book

• “What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!”

• “There is an undeniable correlation between functional illiteracy, poverty, and crime—in fact, eleven states predict their future need for prison cells based on the reading levels of their fourth graders. Books can change lives, yes, and so can the lack of them.”

• “You recollect what Hobbes used to say, "that if he had read as many books as other men, he should have been as ignorant as they," clearly implying that reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.”

• “There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”

• “Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.”

• “They are for company the best friends, in Doubt's Counsellors, in Damps Comforters, Time's Prospective the Home Traveller's Ship or Horse, the busie Man's best Recreation, the Opiate of idle Weariness, the Mindes best Ordinary, Nature's Garden and Seed-plot of Immortality.”

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