book club: November 1998

Ruth JK
The Handmaid's Take JM & HF
Statehood JK
Of Mice and Men MT
A Town Like Alice HF
September WD
The India Fan AR
My Sergai KV
Young Goodman Brown & The Secret Sharer ML
Proverbs MS
Charlie Brown book exchange IS

Words to Live By

A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.
--Thomas Kempis

You cannot open a book without learning something.
--Confucious

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
--Paul Sweeney

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
--Abraham Lincoln

Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
--Jim Rohn

There is no friend as loyal as a book.
--Earnest Hemingway

A book is a gift you can open again and again.
--Garrison Keillor

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.
--Tim Vine

When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.
--Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
--Frederick Douglass

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you'll go.
--Dr. Seuss, "I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!"

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
--Austin Phelps

The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can't.
--Mark Twain

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
--Walt Disney

Wednesday, November 11, 1998

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