“The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy.”
“The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy.”
A. Edward Newton
“If this world affords true happiness it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years where the necessities of life come without severe strain where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.”
A. Edward Newton“The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy.”
A. Edward Newton“The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the unimportant.”
A. Edward Newton“The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...”
A. Edward Newton“There are few finer or more innocent pleasures than talking books to one who knows. There may be joy in heaven- I am told there is- but the evidence is not conclusive, and I'll take mine here in my library.”
A. Edward Newton, This Book Collecting Game“Any book is my kind of book that I can read with delight.”
A. Edward Newton, End Papers: Literary Recreations“In an established love of reading there is a policy of insurance guaranteeing certain happiness till death.”
A. Edward Newton, End Papers: Literary Recreations“My depth of purse is not so greatNor yet my bibliophilic greed,That merely buying doth elate:The books I buy I like to read:Still e'en when dawdling in a mead,Beneath a cloudless summer sky,By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed,The books I read — I like to buy.”
A. Edward Newton, The Amenities of Book Collecting and Kindred Affections“Who was it who said, "I hold the buying of more books than one can peradventure read, as nothing less than the soul's reaching towards infinity; which is the only thing that raises us above the beasts that perish?" Whoever it was, I agree with him.”
A. Edward Newton, A Magnificent Farce And Other Diversions Of A Book Collector“It is really surprising how many and what pleasant things happen to me”
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