| Frank Oliver Hall - Conduct of life - 1901 - 234 pages
...their own literary possessions lightly and deliberately, with no chance of tearing or dog's-ears. If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book...until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again ; and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it, as a soldier can seize... | |
| Books - 1901 - 140 pages
...to your wish ; from that, once entered into it, you can never be outcast but by your own fault. If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book...until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again; and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it, as a soldier can seize... | |
| 1901 - 710 pages
...of one of its members, has secured photographs No book is worth anything which is not worth muck ; nor is it serviceable, until it has been read and reread and loved and loved again ; and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it, as the soldier can... | |
| Sherman Williams - Readers - 1902 - 504 pages
...wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. — HERSCHEL. No book is worth anything which is not worth much...until it has been read, and reread, and loved and loved again ; and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it, as a soldier can seize... | |
| John Ruskin - Books and reading - 1903 - 324 pages
...sparkling ; ° whereas the very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book...until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again ; and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it, as a soldier can seize... | |
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1903 - 1272 pages
...is worth anything which it not worth much," wrote John Ruskin in one of his most exquisite essays, "nor is it serviceable until it has been read and reread, and loved and loved again, and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it as a soldier can seize... | |
| James Gore King McClure - Church group work - 1904 - 152 pages
...all, but to be healthy when you are run at the top of your speed all the time is a great art indeed." "No book is worth anything which is not worth MUCH,...until it has been read and re-read, and loved, and loved again; and marked so that you can refer to the passages you want in it, as a soldier can seize... | |
| Jasper Newton Hunt - Spellers - 1904 - 120 pages
...party. It is company by the way ; it is a counselor ; it is a multitude of Counselors. —BEECHEB. No book is worth anything which is not worth much...it serviceable until it has been read, and re-read. — 175. WORDS FROM DUTCH LANGUAGE sloop bal'last ea'§el -elmk'er gruff dSr'rick mea'gleg -ea boose'... | |
| John Ruskin - 1905 - 700 pages
...and sparkling : whereas the very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book...until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again ; and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it, as a soldier can seize... | |
| Charles Benajah Gilbert, Rachel K. Joralemon - Spellers - 1906 - 194 pages
...Hawthorne. XV i. The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well. — Longfellow. ii. No book is worth anything which is not worth much;...it serviceable until it has been read, and re-read. — Ruskin. in. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell... | |
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