#old book

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#better #book #egypt #even #got

I love to both give and receive very old books. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#both #give #i #i love #love

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#everything #friends #i #i love #love

I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#book #books #each #finger #fingerprints

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#criticized #old #old book #security #sense

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#books #ceased #friends #give #more

A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles! ↗

— Charles Anthon

#been #book #dug #enormous #fastened

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new. ↗

— William Temple

#books #converses #ever #hard #new

I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

#book #ever #finish #i #months