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ID:174
When you teach your son Torah, teach it from a proof-read book!

  - Talmud, PessachimTopics: books
ID:175
Make books your friends!

  - Yehuda Ben TibbonTopics: books
ID:176
Books are meant not to be shelved, but to be studied.

  - Sefer ChassidimTopics: books
ID:226
Our Holy Scriptures are not only a religious book, but the foundation of our literature, our language and our history, and the sole source of them.

  - Rav Tza'irTopics: history books Torah/Bible/Tanach
ID:238
Books were written not for fools but for the wise.

  - Yehuda Ben TibbonTopics: books wisdom
ID:239
Never refuse to lend books to a man who has not the money to buy them for himself- - -if you are sure he will return them!

  - Yehuda Ben TibbonTopics: charity books
ID:240
Books are pouches of wisdom embroidered with pearly words.

  - Moshe Ben EzraTopics: books
ID:241
If people knew the troubles that authors experience, they would not laugh on finding some little error in their books.

  - Yehuda Ben JanachTopics: books
ID:242
What is written lasts for ever.

  - Isaac AbravanelTopics: books
ID:243
Spend your money on expensive books and you will get their worth in golden knowledge.

  - Ben Shlomo ImmanuelTopics: books knowledge
ID:244
No artistan without tools, nor any scholar without books.

  - Tsohar HateivaTopics: books
ID:247
There is no book that has not something bad in it, none that has not something good.

  - Traditional ProverbTopics: books
ID:248
A book gives knowledge, but it is life that gives understanding.

  - Traditional ProverbTopics: books knowledge life
ID:249
A book without a preface is like a body without a soul.

  - Traditional ProverbTopics: books
ID:250
A good book is like a beautiful garden which you can carry in your hand.

  - Chananya ReichmanTopics: books
ID:290
If you change the language, you change the content.

  - Samuel Joseph AgnonTopics: books wisdom
ID:1048
Where can you find a better place to spend the dangerous age than in literature?

  - Theodore HerzlTopics: books
ID:1050
A people's only national literature is the one written in its national language.

  - Achad Ha'amTopics: Israel books
ID:1312
The best of poems is that which men of intelligence are content with and the people understand.

  - Moshe Ben EzraTopics: books education
ID:1631
When the kingdom of words ends, the kingdom of silence begins.

  - Avraham ChenTopics: books wisdom
ID:1694
It is easiser, perhaps, to do good deeds than tell good stories.

  - Samuel Joseph AgnonTopics: books wisdom
ID:1708
The shoe according to the foot and the style according to the contents.

  - Reuven BreininTopics: books wisdom
ID:1793
Even the best translation cannot render fully the exact meaning of the text.

  - Moshe MendelssohnTopics: books Torah/Bible/Tanach
ID:1798
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

  - Groucho MarxTopics: humor books animals
ID:2027
Words should be weighed, not counted.

  - Yiddish ProverbTopics: books wisdom
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