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No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Best Friend, Funny Friendship, Reading

We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth-- 'Tis then we get the right good from a book.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Book, Reading, Profound
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.331

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Time, Pain, Reading
"The Barretts at Hope End: the early diary of Elizabeth Barrett Browning".

Books succeed; and lives fail.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Book, Reading, Succeed
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.450

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