Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
– Henry Ward Beecher
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- It is a man’s duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life. – Henry Ward Beecher
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- Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments. – Henry Ward Beecher
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- We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. – Henry Ward Beecher
- If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost. – Henry Ward Beecher
- Pride slays thanksgiving … A prideful man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. – Henry Ward Beecher
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- A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people. – Manuel Rivas
- You know you’re having a bad week when you call 911, the paramedics come to your house, and one of them notices you’ve rearranged your furniture. – Cherie Kephart
- Just because you painted a house didn’t mean the furniture inside was any different. It had to be the same with people. – Jennifer E Smith
- A house is just a house for its structure and matter but when you add to this a warm caring family the house transforms into a home. – Victor Manan Nyambala
- I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. – Gaston Bachelard
- A house made of ice in the middle of desert! And that house is the house of lies! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- No furniture is so charming as books. – Sydney Smith
- If nothing else, a house is a place to keep books in. – Robert Pogue Harrison
- The goodnesses you do will beautifully cover you like the beautiful flowers covering a country house! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens. – Nicholson Baker
- Jade blinked. It was only for a fraction of a second but she could have sworn the the house had changed shape. – Richard J Ward
- Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
- The world is a room of heavy furniture. Eventually you are allowed to leave. – Adam Foulds
- A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world. – Jane Austen
- I don’t know who tried to teach him what to do in the bedroom, but it must have been a furniture salesman. – Alice Walker
- The principal furniture in Billie’s mind was a good-sized bed. – Budd Schulberg
- My only relationship policy is, don’t bring your dirty laundry to work, no sex on company furniture and don’t let it affect your work. – Paula Graves
- Just know your lines and don’t bump into the furniture. – Spencer Tracy
- Summerhill children are allowed to go through their gangster period, and consequentially more furniture is destroyed. – AS Neill
- I’m OK with being single, but I’m not OK when the time comes where I have to move my furniture around and to change the high ceiling light balls… – Hiroko Sakai
- Ty is green but never with envy. Best of all, he’s usually available to help move a heavy piece of furniture. – John Hopkins
- Unlike fine furniture, a man is better unfinished. – Khang Kijarro Nguyen
- Love is the canvas covering the furniture that you’ve become a part of – Josh Stern
- No violence, gentlemen -” no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture! – Arthur Conan Doyle
- He immediately went down with a thud and I was pretty certain most of the furniture in the room jumped when he landed. – Kristen Ashley
- A man’s real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. – Alexander Smith
- You get up each morning and do what you can to survive. Nothing else is true, and nothing else matters. – Marty Rubin