Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.


Mark Twain

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The greatest gift you can ever give is yourself.
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The greatest gift one person can give their children is love.
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The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.
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The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.
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To want something and to give it to another, is the greatest gift you can give.
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Unconditional love is the greatest gift we can ever give.
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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The greatest gift you can give someone is a gift that only you can give.
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No hot guy should be allowed to have an English accent and drive a motorcycle.
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I'm just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can't give you the answers.
KAMI GARCIA
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o...
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o...
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Never underrate the power of books,by the time you get old & become idle,one thing that can keep you...
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What about the person who has a spleen removed or an amputee. The gift of life is the greatest gift ...
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Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
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The greatest gift you can give yourself is kindness.
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The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it
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The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it
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I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.
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The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.
JOANNE HARRIS
Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, a...
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Mystery books are different. Genre books are a sonnet. ... If you stay inside the format, you can sa...
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Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.
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If I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It wo...
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The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention...
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Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a boo...
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People start panicking because they think it's the end of everything. But the fact is, you know,...
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It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.
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If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you ar...
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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
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If a person gives you his time, he can give you no more precious gift
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The greatest gift life can give you today is the promise of tomorrow.
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Find books, literature and information regarding the abilities and gift which are there in you
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You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life i...
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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
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What if the greatest love story ever told was the wrong one?
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Like any other person who reads a ton of books, I hate many, many books. Oh, how I hate them. I have...
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We are alike in many ways, you and I. There is darkness in us. Darkness, pain, death. They radiate f...
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The Greatest Gift You Can Give To Someone Is The Purity Of Your Attention
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One of the greatest gift a man can give his mum is his respect for femininity.
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I write books to change the world. Perhaps I can only change one little piece of that world. But if ...
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Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf...
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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
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If you are an author and give one of your books to a member of the upper class, you must never expec...
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Sections in the bookstore

- Books You Haven't Read
- Books You Needn't Read
- B...
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In comparing men and books, one must always remember this important distinction,-that one can put th...
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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
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If you are reading this, you have the greatest gift in life. You are alive, so make the most of your...
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I write entertainment. There are some books you read but don't inhale. There are books that will...
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If you can give yourself only one gift, let it be positivity.
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That’s what books do. They are the building blocks, the DNA, if you will, of you. Think of everyth...
DAVE EGGERS
I, Mark Twain being of sound mind, have spent everything
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Give every person your smile. It's the best free gift you can give a person -- that can bring joy to...
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In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Follo...
ITALO CALVINO
I keep drinking the ink from my pen, and I'm balancing history books up on my head, but it all boils...
CONOR OBERST
I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, in...
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You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as l...
DAVID REMNICK
If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you can't learn any other way.--Mark Twain
TONY-PAUL DE VISSAGE
When my girlfriend and I talk about being happy, I'll get choked up, which I think is the greate...
SETH MEYERS
The greatest gift that you were ever given was the gift of your imagination.
WAYNE W. DYER
The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.
ANTHONY J. D'ANGELO
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
ALICE WALKER
If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
BRUCE BARTON
I believe that being dependent makes you more vulnerable. I believe work is the greatest gift you wi...
STEVE SOUTHERLAND
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DICK VAN DYKE
Your true life is the one that would be the greatest gift you could give to others.
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Books, I don't know what you see in them . . . I can understand a person reading them, but I can't f...
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I wrote one of my songs completely out in the field. Another one I started in Alaska and finished in...
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I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on ...
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You can't judge a book by it's cover but you can sure sell a bunch of books if you have a good one.
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I've never envied the person who had to put my books together in one script.
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There were a lot of things I loved about working in a library, but mostly I miss the library patrons...
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Books seem a little old-fashioned, but hey, I can do old-fashioned if it's good.
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And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural w...
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Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
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I do think that books, good books, free you. They make you feel a citizen of the world and things li...
SUE TOWNSEND
I love books.
I love that moment when you open one and sink into it.
You can escape from t...
ELIZABET SCOTT
It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have
SENECA

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′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.
MARK TWAIN
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
MARK TWAIN
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
MARK TWAIN
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
MARK TWAIN
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Trut...
MARK TWAIN
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
MARK TWAIN
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
MARK TWAIN
All right, then, I'll go to hell.
MARK TWAIN
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
MARK TWAIN
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
MARK TWAIN
If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.
MARK TWAIN
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
MARK TWAIN
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it ...
MARK TWAIN
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
MARK TWAIN
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
MARK TWAIN
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
MARK TWAIN
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.
MARK TWAIN