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There’s also used book option at amazon.com, as well as plethora of free learning material on Internet. You don’t have to spend a cent, and you don’t have to leave your house.
Some questions for you about books:
1.Do books uplift spirit and allow a pleasant distraction?
“When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish clouds from my mind.” ~Michel de Montaigne
2.No matter what your stage or age, is there a book out there for you?
”Books … are like lobster shells. We surround ourselves with ‘em, then we grow out of ‘em and leave ‘em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.” ~Dorothy L. Sayers
3. Are books wonderfully user-friendly?
“Books are quietest and most constant of friends; they are most accessible and wisest of counselors, and most patient of teachers. ~ Charles W. Eliot
4. If you’re living without books, are you missing out on something?
”I cannot live without books.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
5.Do you value books more than other material possessions?
”Knowing I lov’d my books, he furnish’d me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedome.” ~Shakespeare
6.Does reading books bring refinement?
”You despise books; you whose loves are absorbed in vanities of ambition, pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. ~ Voltaire
7.Are those who don’t study history forced to repeat it?
”Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. ~Herman Hesse
8.Do books expose you to good people you might not otherwise meet?
”The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with noblest of men of past centuries who were authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but best of their thoughts.” ~ Rene Descartes
9.Are books a part of Information Age?
“The rules have changed. True power is held by person who possesses largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.” ~Anthony J. D’Angelo
10.Do books broaden your horizons?
”It is books that are a key to wide world; if you can’t do anything else, read all that you can.” ~Jane Hamilton
Here’s to joys of reading, to hyacinths for soul!
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