Part 9 (2/2)

But with her--ah! she never knew My heart, and as hidden there!

And she with me, so cold and coy, Seemed like a maid bereft of sense; But in the crowd, all life and joy, And full of blushful impudence

She married,--well, a woman needs So up like weeds And played around her elbow-chair

Years rolled by--and I, content, Trie's touch, ht

And then it chanced I took the book Which she perused in days gone by; And as I read, such passion shook, That, I needs must surely cry

For, here and there, her love rit, In old, half-faded pencil-signs, As if she yielded--bit by bit-- Her heart in dots and underlines

Ah, silvered fool, too late you look!

I know it; but let irl a book Unless you read it afterward!

--_F S Cozzens_

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We should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower; she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it

--_Colton_

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Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter

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BOOKS

If thou art borrowed by a friend, Right welcome shall he be, To read, to study, not to lend, But to return to 's store; But books, I find, if often lent, Return to me no more

--_Murphy_

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BOOKS

The feeling that books are real friends is constantly present to all who love reading ”I have friends,” said Petrarch, ”whose society is extrees, and of every country

They have distinguished theh honors for their knowledge of the sciences It is easy to gain access to them, for they are always at my service, and I admit them to my company, and dismiss them from it, whenever I please They are never troublesome, but immediately answer every question I ask thees, while others reveal to me the secrets of Nature Some teach me how to live, and others how to die